"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you."

God, Life, Grace, Party

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"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you."

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"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."

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

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."

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

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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

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"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

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"If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child."

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"Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death."

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"It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle."

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"Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage."

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"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too."

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"In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints."

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