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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
God

"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."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
God

"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."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
God

"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."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
God

"People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
God

"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!"

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Horace Mann Educator
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"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."

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Luther Burbank Horticulturist
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"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."

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