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Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself and there I searched for you.

St. Augustine

Confessions

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Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 10, ch. 27.

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Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin. Penguin Classics, 1961, bk. 10, ch. 27.

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We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

Isaiah

Isaiah 64:8

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Isaiah 64:8).

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I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.

Ulysses S. Grant

Second Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant

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Grant, Ulysses S. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1873, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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I could not possibly exist with the nature I actually have, that is, one endowed with the idea of God, unless there really is a God; the very God, I mean, of whom I have an idea.

René Descartes

Meditations on First Philosophy

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Descartes, René. Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur [Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated]. Paris, 1641, third meditation.

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Descarte, René. "Meditations on First Philosophy." Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, translated by Donald A. Cress. Hackett Publishing, 1999, third meditation.

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Twas only fear first in the world made gods.

Ben Jonson

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Jonson, Ben. Sejanus His Fall. King's Men, 1603, at court, London, England, UK, act 2.

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Jonson, Ben. "Sejanus." Ben Jonson: Five Plays, edited by G. A. Wilkes. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 2.

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Have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

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A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Harper & Brothers/Methuen Publishing, 1911, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Dover Publications, 2003, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. Gegenwart und Zukunft [The Undiscovered Self], translated by R. F. C. Hull. Routledge & Kegen Paul, 1958.

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Just as I am - without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,
-O Lamb of God, I come!

Charlotte Elliott

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Just as I Am

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Elliott, Charlotte. "Just as I am." Christian Remembrancer, c. 1835.

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Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

God

Job 38:4

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 38:4).

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God made man, without man's consent, and made his nature, too; made it vicious instead of angelic, and then said, Be angelic, or I will punish you and destroy you. But no matter, God is responsible for everything man does, all the same; He can't get around that fact. There is only one Criminal, and it is not man.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. "Little Bessie." Fables of Man. University of California Press, 1972, ch. 2.

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Twain, Mark. "Little Bessie." The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings. University of California Press, 2005, ch. 2.

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Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

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There is surely a peece of Divinity in us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 2, sect. 11.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 2, sect. 11.

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Son, in 35 years of religious studies, I’ve come up with only two hard, incontrovertible facts: There is a God, and I’m not him.

Rudy

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Rudy. Directed by David Anspaugh, TriStar Pictures, 1993.

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They that deny a God destroy a man's nobility, for certainly man is of a kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

Francis Bacon

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Bacon, Francis. "Of Atheism." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Atheism." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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