"I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God."
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"For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier."
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"True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief."
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"I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread."
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"Today God gives milk / and I have the pail."
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"When the cow gives blood and the Christ is born we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women."
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"Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper."
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"Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone."
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"I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out of a man-to-man thing."
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"... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God."
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"To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes."
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"The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out."
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"We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights."
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"There is no need to invent an ego that is separate from the divine if our basic human nature is trusted. If we trust ourselves, we know how to avoid interfering with nature and how to live in harmony. When we know God as an unseen, loving, and accepting power at the heart of everything, allowing us to make our own choices, then God is a trusted part of our nature."
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"Think not thou canst sigh a sigh And thy maker is not by; Think not thou canst weep a tear And thy maker is not near."
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"All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him."
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"He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair."
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"And God would bid His warfare cease, Saying all things were well; And softly make a rosy peace, A peace of Heaven with Hell."
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"On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true."
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"God is our fortress, in whose conquering name Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks."
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