"God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light."

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"God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light."

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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

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"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge."

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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."

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

"To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God."

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"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

"God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light."

"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge."

"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."

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"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."

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