"We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God."

God, Friends, Grave

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"We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

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"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

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"If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character."

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"The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature."

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"Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven."

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"If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man."

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"If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources."

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"If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim."

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"We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others."

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"If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world."

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"Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections."

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"Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others."

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