God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

About Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She also wrote prose under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd.

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Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

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While I was young, when I burned with the love of God, I thought I would convert the whole world to God. But soon I realized that it would be more than enough to convert the people who lived in my town, and I made an effort for a long time, but was not successful. Then I realized that my agenda was still too ambitious, and I focused on the people in my household. But I could not convert them either. Finally I realized: I must work on myself, if I'm really going to have something to offer God. But I didn't even accomplish this.

—Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz

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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

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Each drew his sword / On the side of the Lord.

—Phyllis McGinley

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My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he might be willing to admit that God in Hebrew said the Jews could have Israel. But, he said, Allah did not speak it in Arabic to the Arabs.

—Arthur Hertzberg

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Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23.1: "If your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord.

—Donald Morgan

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