"The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe."

God, Church, Mosque, Style

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"The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe."

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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."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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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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"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."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

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"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."

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"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."

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"The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination."

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"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."

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"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."

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"The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens."

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"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."

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"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."

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"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."

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