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"Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God."
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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."
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"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."
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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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"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."
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"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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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""
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"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
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"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."
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"Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us."
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"The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal."
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"Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God."
God
"Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker."
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"Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul."
God
"The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before."
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"Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church."
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"In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature."
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"Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things."
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"From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer."
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