"God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance."
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"There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence."
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"God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention."
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"All gods are better than their reputation."
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"It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden"
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"The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease."
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"I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time."
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"As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him."
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"When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering."
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"Space is the stature of God."
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"Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army"
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"The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God."
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"God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not."
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"The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted."
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"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin."
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"The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside."
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"We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love, 1963"
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"He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his hands. But he squanders money. Thank God for it."
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"The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence."
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"God who gives the wound gives the salve."
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