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Is it possible that nobody has ever known—that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?
The God-Seeker (1949)
I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence. ~ Ch. 59
The God-Seeker (1949)
Everything seemed confused and contradictory, and he longed for one clear command from a divine martinet. ~ Ch. 7
The God-Seeker (1949)
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind. ~ Ch. 4
The God-Seeker (1949)
It did seem sounder to build houses which he could build than to teach children a gospel which he did not altogether understand in a Sioux language which he could not quite speak.
The God-Seeker (1949)
An ugly woodshed that's there, right on the ground, is handsomer to me than a ten-story temple that isn't there. ~ Ch. 57
The God-Seeker (1949)
When he gets uppity about his supposed learning, I just take it on myself to remind him that God and his angels know almost as much as college professors ~ Ch. 23
The God-Seeker (1949)
Now we got a lawyer, we got civilization, which I understand to mean that a man has a chance to get rich without working. ~ Ch. 17
The God-Seeker (1949)
Good sense from a child was not necessarily contemptible beside foolishness from a grown-up. ~ Ch. 3
The God-Seeker (1949)
Maybe he was not a good-enough Christian to get the proper zest out of mortifying his indolent flesh. ~ Ch. 15
The God-Seeker (1949)
Mostly the adult Indians did not wish their children to learn these arts from the emissaries of what they astonishingly considered an alien, false and hostile God. ~ Ch. 21
The God-Seeker (1949)
He prayed, 'Lord God, let us be the kind of Christians that you would be if you were a Christian'. ~ Ch. 24
The God-Seeker (1949)
I don't believe in fear of divine vengeance, and I do believe in justice and equality.... ~ Ch. 57
The God-Seeker (1949)
As they talked around the fire in the sitting-room, he was embarrassed by the nakedness of their piety. ~ Ch. 22
The God-Seeker (1949)
He had unhappily noticed at the mission that when he had most hotly prayed, it had been a way of escaping a decision, of frivolously passing the lot to God. ~ Ch. 50
The God-Seeker (1949)
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter! ~ Ch. 3
The God-Seeker (1949)