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Nature loves to hide her secrets, and she does not suffer the hidden truth about the essential nature of the gods to be flung in naked words to the ears of the profane...

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Zeal to do all that is in one's power is, in truth, a proof of piety.

By purple death I'm seized and fate supreme.

Of all things nothing exists that is not by its substance the offspring of ocean.

No wild beasts are such enemies to mankind as are most of the Christians in their deadly hatred of one another.

One out of the one Intelligible world; he is stationed in the middle of the Intelligible Powers, according to the strictest sense.

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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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