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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."
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"To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth."
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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."
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"The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence."
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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
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"The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more."
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"The dog is the god of frolic."
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"As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions."
Truth
"I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years."
Tradition
"Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order."
Humanity
"Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language."
God
"But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel."
Time
"That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity."
Age
"However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights."
Rights
"All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved."
Experience
"We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family."
Family
"Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts."
Time
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