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If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense po...

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S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)

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The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose c...

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I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my secret heart I too felt a void where my childhood fa...

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Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.

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But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?[Written after an earthquak...

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A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contra...