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> [One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-gaustad/one-seeks-to-know-the-self-better-in-order-to-know-god-better/)

[Edwin Gaustad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-gaustad/)

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## More by Edwin Gaustad

> [One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-gaustad/one-seeks-to-know-the-self-better-in-order-to-know-god-better/)

[Edwin Gaustad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-gaustad/)

> [If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-gaustad/if-history-teaches-us-any-lessons-at-all-it-teaches-us-that-force/)

[Edwin Gaustad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-gaustad/)

> [In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-gaustad/in-america-religious-dissent-is-as-vital-as-it-is-elusive-like-the/)

[Edwin Gaustad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-gaustad/)

> [Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted as suited…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-gaustad/jefferson-found-in-the-religion-phrases-of-the-first-amendment-no/)

[Edwin Gaustad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-gaustad/)

> [The first phrase of the First Amendment spoke to the freedom uppermost in Jefferson's mind when it provided that, 'Congress shall make no law…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-gaustad/the-first-phrase-of-the-first-amendment-spoke-to-the-freedom/)

[Edwin Gaustad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-gaustad/)

> [Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-gaustad/most-of-the-founding-fathers-sympathetic-with-and-influenced-by-the/)

[Edwin Gaustad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-gaustad/)

> [What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-gaustad/what-good-deed-can-government-do-for-religion-the-best-deed-of-all/)

[Edwin Gaustad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-gaustad/)

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