"Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue."

God, Connection, Spirituality

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"Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue."

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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."

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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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Voltaire, French Writer

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

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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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"There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake."

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"It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country."

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"We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons."

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"One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible."

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"I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped."

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