"Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ."
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"What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death."
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"He is never born, never dies, without beginning or end, eternal and infinite. Through all times, past, present and future, He remains the same. The origin and dissolution of the Universe is all within him. Nothing exists without his existence. He is everything."
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"God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions."
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"To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God."
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"Whatever is in motion must be put in motion by another. If that by which it is put in motion be itself put in motion, then this also must needs be put in motion by another, and that by another again. But this cannot go on to infinity, because then there would be no first mover, and, consequently, no other mover; seeing that subsequent movers move only inasmuch as they are put in motion by the first mover; as the staff moves only because it is put in motion by the hand. Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God."
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"When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!"
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"Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?"
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"I can't bring myself to believe in a God with a personality like my own. I base that on the paucity of lightning attacks on people who deserve it."
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"Simple molecules combine to make powerful chemicals. Simple cells combine to make powerful life-forms. Simple electronics combine to make powerful computers. Logically, all things are created by a combination of simpler, less capable components. Therefore, a supreme being must be in our future, not our origin. What if "God" is the consciousness that will be created when enough of us are connected by the Internet?!!"
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"Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this."
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"Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us all about the nature of God would be the worst, if they were not surpassed by the still greater absurdities of the philosophers who try to prove that there is no God."
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"You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?"
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"She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang."
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"While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope."
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"I wonder if to stare into the face of God will drive me crazy. (I wonder who would blink first.)"
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"I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe."
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"God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure."
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"In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work."
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"We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up."
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