"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?"

God, Gods, Fathers, Man

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"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?"

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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."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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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."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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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."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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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.""

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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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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"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."

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"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."

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"The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."

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"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."

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"She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts."

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"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world."

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"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."

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