"A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god."
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"When gods die, they always die many sorts of death."
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"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."
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"There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity."
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"One should only question gods where none but gods can reply."
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"Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey"
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"Man proposes, but God blocks the game."
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"God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own."
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"No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next."
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"God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create."
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"None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good."
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"Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better."
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"More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent."
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"I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when suddenly God saw me. I felt His gaze inside my head and on my hands....I flew into a rage against so crude an indiscretion, I blasphemed....He never looked at me again....I had the more difficulty getting rid of Him the Holy Ghost in that He had installed Himself at the back of my head....I collared the Holy Ghost in the cellar and threw Him out."
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"As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]"
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"Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows."
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"The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate."
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"If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that."
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"But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven."
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"From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way."
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