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No man — prince, peasant, pope, — has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness.

— Morris West The Heretic (1968)

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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.

The Clowns of God (1981)

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

The Clowns of God (1981)

The prevalence of evil is the darkest and most frightening mystery of the universe.

Eminence (1998)

In Switzerland everything that is not forbidden is legal.

Masterclass (1988)

Religion is the good you do in the bad times.

The Ringmaster (1991)

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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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God seeks comrades and claims love,
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Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention.

Robert Anton Wilson Everything Is Under Control (1998)

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