“Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.”
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“To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.”
“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.”
“God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.”
“Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.”
“It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.”
“So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.”
“Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.”
“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.”
“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”
“I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.”
“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”
“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”
“I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.”
“What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.”
“We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.”
“There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.”
“Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.”
“White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.”
“How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.”
“That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.”
“Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.”
“Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.”
“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”