"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you."

God, Being

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"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you."

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"The gods are watching, but idly, yawning."

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"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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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."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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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."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."

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"All God wants of man is a peaceful heart."

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"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence."

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"The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great."

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"If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself."

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"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action."

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"The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge."

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"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."

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