"God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how."

God, Life, Choice, Man

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"God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Anyone who truly loves God travels securely."

Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint

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"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

Joseph Campbell, American Author

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"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."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

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"There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation."

Lewis Cass, American Soldier

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"There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul."

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"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."

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"Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed."

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"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."

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"The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are."

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"Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top."

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"It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause."

Resilience

"A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that providence means for him."

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"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

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"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave."

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