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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
God made the country and man made the town.
God made the country and man made the town.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his read more
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God
by his spirit, his is a base and ignoble creature.
He made little, too little of sacraments and priests, because God
was so intensely real to him. What should read more
He made little, too little of sacraments and priests, because God
was so intensely real to him. What should he do with lenses who
stood thus full in the torrent of the sunshine.
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.