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Don't you know there ain't no devil? There's only God when He's drunk.

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The face forgives the mirror, the worm forgives the plough, the question begs the answer, can you forgive me somehow?

Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.

If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.

And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can forget, that history puts a saint in every dream.

It's kind of like borrowing the same ten bucks from somebody over and over again.

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

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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.

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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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