"The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order."
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"I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause."
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"How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved. . . . God is no stop-gap; he must be recognized as the center of life, not when we are at the end of our resources."
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"Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us."
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"All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me."
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"God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all."
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"No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed."
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"If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts."
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"In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid."
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"Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported."
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"God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves."
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"The faster you go, the shorter you are."
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"In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction."
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"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."
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"The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously."
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"...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God."
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"A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream."
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"Change can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer, because with God all things are possible."
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"I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within."
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"Every infinity... is made finite to God."
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