"I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling."
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"Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!"
"Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke."
"God sends the cold according to the coat."
"Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means."
"The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty."
"Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen."
"There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God."
"Man appoints, and God disappoints."
"Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice."
"Thank God we don't serve God with our feelings, otherwise I don't know where I would be. - Pray for me."
"People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves."
"Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!"
"God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker"
"Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar."
"Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself."
"How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand."
"The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God."