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God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the learned.
(Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician, scientist, philosopher. "Memorial 1654," p. 69, Selections, ed. R.H. Popkin, Macmillan, New York (1989).
"Memorial" was written immediately after Pascal's great religious experience in Nov. 1654. He carried a copy of it with him until his death.)
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It feels good because God has power and if one does as God does enough times, one will become as God is.
(Michael Mann, U.S. screenwriter. Hannibal Lechtor (Brian Cox), Manhunter, describing to FBI agent Will Graham the motivation behind many a killer (1986).
Lechtor was also a featured character in Silence of the Lambs. Manhunter was adapted from the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.)
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The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business.
(William James (1842-1910), U.S. philosopher, psychologist. Originally published 1903. Varieties of Religious Experience, lecture 20, New York (1961).)
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In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God's existence, God's justice, God's love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.
(Erich Fromm (1900-1980), U.S. psychologist. The Art of Loving, ch. 2, Harper & Row (1956).)
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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existence of evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. letter, Feb. 14, 1910, to Count Leo Tolstoy. Collected Letters 1898-1910, ed. by Dan H. Laurence (1972).)
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Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God sufficeth.
(Saint Theresa, of Avila (1515-1582), Spanish saint. Lines Written in Her Breviary (l. 7-9). . .
Women Poets of the World. Joanna Bankier and Deirdre Lashgari, eds. (1983) Macmillan Publishing Company.)
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Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. A Death in the Desert, l. 586-8, Dramatis Personae (1864).)
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God gives us our relatives—thank God we can choose our friends.
(Ethel Watts Mumford (1878-1940), U.S. novelist, humorous writer, Addison Mizner, U.S. architect, and Oliver Herford (1863-1935), U.S. poet, illustrator. The Cynic's Calendar (1903).)
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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
(Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946), U.S. essayist, aphorist. "Other People," Afterthoughts (1931).)
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
(Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1623-1677), Dutch pantheistic philosopher. Ethics, bk. I, prop. XV, On the Improvement of the Understanding, the Ethics, and Correspondence, p. 55, trans. by R.H.M. Elwes, Dover, New York (1955).
Spinoza's Ethics was one of the most revolutionary texts of modern philosophy.)
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