More on God
God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a 'consumer' shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with 'unalienable rights'.
Benjamin Harrison The Status of Annexed Territory and of its Free Civilized Inhabitants (1901)
Thus heaven I’ve forfeited,
I know it full well.
My soul, once true to God,
Is chosen for hell.
If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God; and to do that, thou must be ruled by him who has given to kings his grace to command themselves and their subjects, and to the people the grace to obey God and their kings.
I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?
In time, the heart of each religion grows hard and dies. And so seekers of the godly will always turn to new prophets and new ways, never realizing that, ultimately, all religions separate man from God.
The analogy between Shannon and codes in biology isn't something that sprang from my belief in God... except maybe on some deeper or more transcendent level.
The power of God can be detected neither in the world of nature nor in the souls of men. It must not be confounded with any high, exalted, force, known or knowable.
We are grown-up infants, and God is a sort of 'wet nurse' to humanity.
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