"To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you."
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"When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants."
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"If Nature is our mother, then God is our father."
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"Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance."
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"The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it."
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"I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world."
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"A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being what he has made them, may be omnipotent and various other things, but he is not what the English language has always intended by the adjective holy."
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"Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable."
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"I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday."
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"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."
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"Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are spirit."
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"We live in a spiritual Universe. God is in, through, around and for us."
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"Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In God's reality, the more you give of yourself-in feeling, generosity, self-expression, goodness, creativity, and love-the more you will be given."
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"We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low."
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"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you."
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"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance."
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"A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man."
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"One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion."
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"God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]"
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"Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God."
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