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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did no...

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Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.Around God, everything becomes what? a world?

Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant we...

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The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that Go...

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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comf...

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The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...

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Friedrich NietzscheOn the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers ...

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New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a c...

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Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?And what in the...

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Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!He was human,...

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While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine.

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Hi...

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...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spi...

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No man hates God without first hating himself.

Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His br...

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Our poor human heart is flawed: it is like a cake without the frosting: the first two acts of the th...

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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You...

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All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine ...

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The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift fr...

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All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young...

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Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil ...

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No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact w...

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Fulton J. SheenCharacters of the Passion: Lessons on Faith and Trust

The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in do...

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Fulton J. SheenCharacters of the Passion: Lessons on Faith and Trust

It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the e...

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Fulton J. SheenFulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book

You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always...

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Fulton J. SheenFulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book

The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there w...

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Fulton J. SheenFulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book

We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ult...

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Fulton J. SheenLife Is Worth Living

Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and...

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Fulton J. SheenLife Is Worth Living

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the paren...

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Fulton J. SheenLife Is Worth Living

Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and ...

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Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him...

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When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to...

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If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and ther...

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As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in ...

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Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be Hi...

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As Adam lost the heritage of union with God in a garden, so now Our Blessed Lord ushered in its rest...

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The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give ...

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Fulton J. SheenPeace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The emp...

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Fulton J. SheenSeven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in ...

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Fulton J. SheenSeven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which sta...

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Fulton J. SheenSeven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perf...

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Fulton J. SheenSeven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Bab...

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Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation;...

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The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes th...

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Fulton J. SheenThe Seven Capital Sins

In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a ma...

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My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a...

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At eight-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a ...

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intell...

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Galileo GalileiLetter to the Grand Duchess Christina

And then I stand in front of God's Throne squinting up at His blazing glory and He says, 'You had yo...

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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how ...

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My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, ac...

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Garrison KeillorLake Wobegon Days

Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was r...

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Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly wate...

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We do not have too much pain in this life, we have too little... Because through pain we arrive at G...

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I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And th...

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Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, c...

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I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves ...

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How can He be perfect? Everything He ever makes...dies.

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck thi...

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I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere.

In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matt...

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaph...

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George LakoffPhilosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

I am simply trying to struggle through life trying to do God's bidding.

Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Ther...

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I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

We must remember that God is not occupied with a grand toy of worlds and suns and planets, of attrac...

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One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have ...

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To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of ...

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The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary l...

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To be unable to bear disapproval was an unworthy weakness. But in her case it came nowise of the pri...

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For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that wo...

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Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.

O Lord, I have been talking to the people;Thought's wheels have round me whirled a fiery zoneAnd the...

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George MacDonaldThe Diary of an Old Soul & the White Page Poems

...he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because...

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Do you really suppose God cares whether a man comes to good or ill?""If He did not, He could not be ...

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I should not be surprised," said Mr. Graham, "that the day should come when men will refuse to belie...

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I fear you will never arrive at an understanding of God so long as you cannot bring yourself to see ...

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To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie aga...

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...To trust in the strength of God in our weakness; to say, ‘I am weak: so let me be: God is strong;...

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The heavens and the earth are around us that it may be possible for us to speak of the unseen by the...

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George MacDonaldUnspoken Sermons: Series I

All that is not God is death.

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George MacDonaldUnspoken Sermons: Series I

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want ...

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Not only then has each man his individual relation to God but each man has his peculiar relation to...

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If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that ...

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Just as God's love to us believers, his children, is unalterably the same, whatever may be the manif...

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Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.

I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and...

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Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him. But ...

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