"God is best known in not knowing him."

Saint Aurelius Augustine, Roman Theologian

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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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"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."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Conscience is God present in man."

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

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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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."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"

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"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."

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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

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"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."

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"This world's a bubble."

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"Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires."

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"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot."

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"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."

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"The purpose of all war is peace."

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"The verdict of the world is conclusive."

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