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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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...
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Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passio...
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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...
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You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't...
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When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laught...
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Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked.T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew bundles of pound notes. 'O...
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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...
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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...
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when yo...
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You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing.
