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"I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us."
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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."
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"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
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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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"If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door."
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"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."
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"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."
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"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."
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"No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God."
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"It was part of your religion to hate the British."
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"Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North."
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"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."
Difference

"You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do."
Time

"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."
Death

"But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth."
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"No man surely has so short a memory as the American."
American

"The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet."
Love

"War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums."
War

"Reform is born of need, not pity."
Pity
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