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> [If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant... Such thinking ignores the depths of sin in my own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-t-welch-2/if-we-think-we-are-usually-good-then-god-is-usually-irrelevant-such/)

[Edward T Welch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-t-welch-2/)

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> [True art is reverent imitation of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tryon-edwards/true-art-is-reverent-imitation-of-god/)

[Tryon Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tryon-edwards/)

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> [The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/the-heavenly-bodies-are-nothing-but-a-continuous-song-for-several/)

[Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/)

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> [It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-bloom/it-is-easy-today-to-deny-god-s-creativity-as-a-thing-of-the-benighted/)

[Allan Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-bloom/)

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> [The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-fort/the-theologians-have-recognized-that-the-ideal-is-the-imitation-of/)

[Charles Fort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-fort/)

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