"It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven."

God, Artist, Force, Heaven

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"It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven."

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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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"How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?"

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"Literature becomes the living memory of a nation."

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"Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation."

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"Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being."

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"The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble."

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"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."

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