Quotes with god-nature

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  • Tennessee Williams All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Marquis de Sade All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Israel Zangwill America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
    Israel Zangwill
    British writer (1864 - 1926)
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  • Florence King Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • A. P. Herbert An act of God was defined as ''something which no reasonable man could have expected.''
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Martin Luther An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
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  • Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • John Ruskin An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Hortense Calisher An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
    Hortense Calisher
    American writer (1911 - 2009)
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  • Carl Sagan An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.
    (2006)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Simone Weil An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Samuel Butler An honest god's the noblest work of man.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Alexander Pope An honest man's the noblest work of God.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bret Harte An hour ago, a Star was falling. A star? There's nothing strange in that. No, nothing; but above the thicket, Somehow it seemed to me that God Somewhere had just relieved a picket.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Thomas à Kempis An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • A. W. Tozer An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Washington Irving An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • A. W. Tozer An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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