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Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying — but when God talks to us, we're said to be schizophrenic?

— Jane Wagner

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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

All my life, I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

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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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