“That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.”
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“It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.”
“God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.”
“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”
“The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.”
“Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.”
“Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.”
“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.”
“Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.”
“An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.”
“Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.”
“We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.”
“The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.”
“An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.”
“Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.”
“The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.”
“You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.”
“The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.”
“The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.”
“The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.”
“God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.”
“The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.”
“God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.”
“Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.”