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"We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful."
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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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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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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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"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free."
Spirit
"If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself."
Will
"I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it."
Education
"The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher."
Education
"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."
Existence
"The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again."
War
"Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy."
Education
"We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion."
Change
"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."
History
"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
Experience
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