“If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.”
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“No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today; enjoy it and bless God for it.”
“The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.”
“The dog is the god of frolic.”
“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”
“That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.”
“Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.”
“We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.”
“I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?”
“God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.”
“There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.”
“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.”
“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.”
“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
“We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.”
“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.”
“Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.”
“The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.”
“Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.”
“My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.”
“To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.”
“Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.”
“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.”
“A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.”