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Leonard Bacon

"'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it."

Leonard Bacon, American Clergyman
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"'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it."

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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."

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

Virginia Woolf, British Author
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"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher
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"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author
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"Anyone who truly loves God travels securely."

Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint
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"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

Joseph Campbell, American Author
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"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."

Willa Cather, American Author
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"Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author
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"There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice."

Thomas Paine, English Writer
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"Refuting anything in this worldly life is tantamount to refuting God. Even refuting stealing is tantamount to refuting God. This Stealing is a kind of laxative. It cleanses us and leaves."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader
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