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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."
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Personal Development

"God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are."
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Personal Development

"Leave the rest to the gods."
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"God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas."
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Personal Development

"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."
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Personal Development

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

"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."
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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."
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"God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour."
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"There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways."
Wonder

"One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all."
Religion

"When we look at a solid lump of iron or rock, we are 'really' looking at what is almost entirely empty space. It looks and feels solid and opaque because our sensory systems and brains find it convenient to treat it as solid and opaque. It is convenient for the brain to represent a rock as solid because we can't walk through it. 'Solid' is our way of experiencing things that we can't walk through or fall throug, because of the electromagnetic forces between atoms. 'Opaque' is the experience we have when light bounces off the surface of an object, and none of it goes through."
Science

“Evil doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to ‘the Christian majority’s private liking.’”
Ethics

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
Religion

"Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium."
Science

"Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past."
Life

"How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old."
Education

"It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that)."
Science

"Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works."
Science
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