"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be."

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"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God, Work

"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God,

"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

God, Lie, Being, Reason

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

God, Atheism, Philosophy

"The gods are watching, but idly, yawning."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

God, Gods

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

God, Eyes

"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."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

God, Humor, Performance, Being

"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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"Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?"

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"But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?"

Life

"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency."

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"'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."

"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"The gods are watching, but idly, yawning."

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

"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."

"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."

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"Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure."

"No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something."

"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."

"Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn."

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"

"Every one soon or late comes round by Rome."

"Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?"

"But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?"

"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency."

"'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do."