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"If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God.""
"Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person."
"Sometimes I wonder whose side God's on."
"Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him."
"If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world."
"Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually."
"It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing when we say, "Father, help me! I need You!""
"He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting with respect to His holy will, I fear God, and have no other fear."
"If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also."
"God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it."
"Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard."
"Where sanity is there God is."
"I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist."
"In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all."
"For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures."
"Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask."
"You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that."
"Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their fellow-beings, have not failed to attribute to the Universal Cause a character analogous with their own. The image of this invisible, mysterious Being is more or less excellent and perfect resembles more or less its original in proportion to the perfection of the mind on which it is impressed."
"We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us."
"I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so."
