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I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

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Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

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If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We...more

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If there is a God who uses us and makes his saints out of such material as we are, the devil too may have his ambitions: he may dream of training even...more

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But you do believe, don’t you," Rose implored him, "you think it’s true?" "Of course it’s true," the Boy said. "What else could there be?" he went sco...more

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I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'Rose didn't answer the woman was quit...more

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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

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But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's ...more

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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

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For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you – with your lusts and your adulteries and the timid lies you used to tell – can change like this, w...more

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You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory wi...more

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Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest...more

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You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing.

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How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. I...more

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When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity – that was a quality God’s image carried with it. When you saw the l...more