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"Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things."
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"I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?"
"At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God."
"Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?"
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"One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."
"The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through."
"Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."
"Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!"
"There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go."
"And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."
"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."
"None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature."
"I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."
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