“Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.”
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“God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.”
“Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.”
“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.”
“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
“God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.”
“If God is just, I tremble for my country.”
“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”
“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”
“Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.”
“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
“I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.”
“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.”
“There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.”
“My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.”
“Where love is, there God is also.”
“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.”
“I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.”
“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?”
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.”