"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."

God, Idea, Duty, Infinity

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"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."

Johannes Sebastian Bach, German Composer

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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity."

Julie Harris, American Actress

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"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."

Ramakrishna, Indian Leader

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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."

Gerrit Smith, American Politician

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"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."

Tupac Shakur, American Musician

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"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."

Patience

"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

Presence

"People become concerned with being more humble than other people."

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"Working rightly, the brain is the highest form of "instinctual wisdom." Thus it should work like the homing instinct of pigeons and the formation of the foetus in the womb - without verbalizing the process of knowing "how" it does it. The self-conscious brain, like the self-conscious heart, is a disorder, and manifests itself in the acute feeling of separation between "I" and my experience."

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"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."

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"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."

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"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter."

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"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

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"Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know."

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"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

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