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God Quotes by Samuel Butler
- If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before…
- An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
- God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
- Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
- Let every man be true and every god a liar.
- Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
- God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
- And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
- God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
- God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
- He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is…
- To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is…
- God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians
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