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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

God, Enemies, Prayer

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

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

God, Nature, Fate, Fortune

"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

Joseph Campbell, American Author

God, Thought, Metaphor

"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

God, Women, Talent, Wonder

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

God,

"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

God, Being, Statesman

"When belief in a god dies, the god dies."

Harlan Ellison, American Writer

God, Belief

"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

God, Clouds

"It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God."

George H. White, American Politician

God, Crime, Ignorance, Letters

"Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God."

Robert Grosseteste, English Statesman

God, Contradiction

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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."

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

"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."

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is."

"When belief in a god dies, the god dies."

"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God."

"It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God."

"Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God."

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"God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends."

"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."

"The greatest possession is self-possession."

"God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends."