“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.”
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“Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”
“For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.”
“God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.”
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
“We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.”
“I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.”
“We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.”
“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”
“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.”
“The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.”
“If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.”
“It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.”
“The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.”
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
“To believe in God is impossible; not to believe in Him is absurd.”
“Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.”
“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”
“The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.”
“I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.”
“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.”
“In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.”