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“Faith,” she said gently. “But, Will darling, I just never have seen any of the mountains they say it moved.”

— Edgar Pangborn A Mirror for Observers (1954)

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I learned some years back that human nature is volatile stuff in a world full of lighted matches.

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If you’re interested in ethics, you could do worse than think in terms of geological time.

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One who can define kindness only as the absence of cruelty has surely not begun to understand the nature of either.

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I notice men themselves have never invented a god capable of understanding them.

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One would think that the mere shortness of life would be a reminder that to destroy beauty is to destroy one’s own self too.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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