"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."

God, Man, Want, Will

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"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."

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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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"Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes."

"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."

"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."

"We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well."

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