To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!
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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know." "We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.".
Does he say novenas
for those with no venus
(to Dan Brown).
Does he say novenas
for those with no venus
(to Dan Brown).
Beware of the man of one book.
Beware of the man of one book.
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
We are what we believe we are.
We are what we believe we are.
Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being.
Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being.
