"When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat."
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"God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day."
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"Oh God! If you save me I will work for you."
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"The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil."
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"God will not force himself upon us against our will. If we want his love, we need to believe in him. We need to make a definite, positive act of commitment and surrender to the love of God. No one can do it for us."
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"A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files."
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"Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook."
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"Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love."
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"To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant."
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"To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!"
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"That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!"
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"An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant; before the idol men remain dependent children, before God they are burdened and at the same time liberated to participate in the decisions of endless creation."
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"A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?"
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"All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye."
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"He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth."
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"Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth) where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, in the Supreme Self, in paramatman (God). This is what Christ means when he says, "Before Abraham was, I am" (i.e. before Abraham was God, who is the same that is in my soul - I am That.)"
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"God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay."
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"Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him."
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"The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow."
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"When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages."
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