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If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

— Joseph McCabe

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The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

The Existence of God (1913)

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

The Psychology of Religion (1927)

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

What Gods Cost Man (1933)

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.

The Existence of God (1913)

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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