"God the first garden made, and the first city Cain."

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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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"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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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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"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Anyone who truly loves God travels securely."

Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint

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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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"Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

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"Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God."

John E. Hines, American Clergyman

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"There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."

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"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."

Nature

"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."

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"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

Love

"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."

People

"His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right."

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"Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last."

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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."

"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."

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

"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"

"Anyone who truly loves God travels securely."

"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."

"Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!"

"Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God."

"There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice."

Explore more quotes by Abraham Cowley

"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."

"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."

"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."

"A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."

"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make."

"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."

"Life is an incurable disease."

"His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right."

"Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last."