"In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone."

God, Society, Man, Responsibility

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"In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone."

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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 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."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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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."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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

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"Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom."

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"In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely."

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"The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder."

Controversy

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"Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book."

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"Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out."

End

"I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them."

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"I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters."

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"This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven."

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"My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring."

Feelings