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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

—Anatole France

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I don't think, in our kind of society, we'll be able to develop a full-blown mystical religion or concept of God because we seek instant gratification, fast food, endless talk and noise. The silence in mysticism is alien. People want to do a few courses in mysticism, rather like the way you do French before going on holiday, and emerge a mystic. Mysticism isn't like that.

—Karen Armstrong

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Joan of Arc: I hear voices telling me what to do. They come from God.
Robert: They come from your imagination.
Joan: Of course. That is how the messages of God come to us.

—George Bernard Shaw

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We must return to nature and nature's god.

—Luther Burbank

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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

—Mel Brooks

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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.

—Elbert Hubbard

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When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

—Peter O'Toole

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God is in the details.

—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

—J. M. Barrie

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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

—Malcolm de Chazal

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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

—Christopher Morley in Hide and Seek

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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne

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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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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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