"Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!"
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"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."
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"But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself."
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"He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion."
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"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."
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"Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent."
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"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to."
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"A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry."
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"Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort."
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"Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices."
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"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
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"Trials can be hard, if you don't know God."
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"If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox."
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"Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!"
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"I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one."
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"Religion is what a person does in his solitariness."
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"to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer."
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"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."
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"Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them."
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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."
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