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"It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God."
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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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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"Conscience is God present in man."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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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."
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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."
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"What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character."
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"To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd."
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"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
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"Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need."
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"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."
Men
"Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice."
Friendship
"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
Desire
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
God
"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
Mind
"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."
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"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved."
Men
"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."
Life
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