"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."

God, Cause

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"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."

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"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."

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"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."

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"How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."

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"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."

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"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."

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"For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

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"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."

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"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."

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