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"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
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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."
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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."
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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"Conscience is God present in man."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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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."
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"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."
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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."
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"To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd."
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"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."
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"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
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"Forgiveness is the final form of love."
Forgiveness
"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it."
Life
"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery."
Nature
"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else."
Courage
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
Democracy
"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."
Family
"I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth."
Truth
"Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems."
Democracy
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