"It is an insult to God to believe……" — Galen Strawson

It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on… - Galen Strawson

"It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument - their intellect - which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously."

— Galen Strawson

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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all… — Hannah Arendt
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. — Teresa of Avila
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and… — Sai Baba
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.… — Philip James Bailey
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. — Bernard Baruch
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a… — Joseph Addison
The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.… — Pope Benedict XVI
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long… — Alfred Adler
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. — William Blake
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