"Every man makes a god of his own desire."

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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."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Conscience is God present in man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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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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"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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English 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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"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."

"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."

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

"Conscience is God present in man."

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

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

"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."

"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."

"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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"Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched."

"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."

"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."

"Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?"

"Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth."

"Their rage supplies them with weapons."

"Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance."

"Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety."

"One man excels in eloquence, another in arms."

"Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things."