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We all of us try to make God in our image. It is one of the worst of our temptations.

— Elizabeth Goudge The Bird in the Tree (1940)

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A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it.

The Dean's Watch (1960)

Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on.

The White Witch (1958)

There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom.

The Dean's Watch (1960)

Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition.

The Scent of Water (1963)

The human desire to be understood is never quite sincere. It is on our own terms that we desire to be understood, not on the terms of truth.

The Child from the Sea (1970)

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

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

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.

Basil of Caesarea

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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