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Peter De Vries

"Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring."

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"Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring."

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

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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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"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."

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"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through."

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"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."

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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."

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"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."

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"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."

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"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after."

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"Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart."

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"There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you."

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"Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."

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