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- Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
- When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling…
- If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with…
- We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
- Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps,…
- 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…
- Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is…
- 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…
- Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of…
- ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who…
- It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear…
- When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
- If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
- The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
- It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
- The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.
- It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
- Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the…
- I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
- But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the God, and the…
- God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
- A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic…
- IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their…
- Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
- Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
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- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
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- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi