"The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things."

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"The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

Joseph Campbell, American Author

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"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"When belief in a god dies, the god dies."

Harlan Ellison, American Writer

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"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."

"I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

"I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is."

"When belief in a god dies, the god dies."

"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God."

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"The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things."

"Without humility there can be no humanity."

"Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences."

"The best prayers have often more groans than words."

"You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn."

"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them."

"Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown."

"To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education."

"He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply."

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