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"If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees."

"Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work."

"Before I could turn to look up, a voice boomed from the heavens: "What the heck is going on down there?"

"This heart belongs to you alone."

"Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master."

"God is the name we give to the science we don't understand. Science is the name we give to the God we don't understand."

"You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God."

"God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him."

"In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

"There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do."

"You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me."

"Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis."

"How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so."

"Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed."

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?"and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."

"I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All."

"Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it."

"I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of a father who plots to have his own son put to death is presented to children as beautiful and as worthy of society's admiration, what types of human behavior can be presented to them as reprehensible?"

"Whose little boy are you?"

"A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up."