"The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue."

God, Enthusiasm, Virtue, Mystery

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"The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue."

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God, Work

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

God, Atheism, Philosophy

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

Voltaire, French Writer

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

Voltaire, French 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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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

God, Truth, People, Idea

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!"

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"Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life."

Life

"Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself."

God

"Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul."

Health

"The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites."

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"God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away."

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"Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express."

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

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

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

"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."

"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."

"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

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"Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!"

"To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain."

"The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war."

"Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth."

"Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life."

"Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself."

"Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul."

"The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites."

"God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away."

"Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express."