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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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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Personal Development

"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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"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."
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"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."
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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
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"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
Love

"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."
Dream

"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."
Absence

"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
Friendship

"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."
Happiness

"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."
Energy

"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness."
Paris

"Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves."
Neighborhood

"Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer."
Time

"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."
God
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