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“The stillness of God is perfect. Nothing has to be added to it. Nothing can be taken away.”

God Perfect Taken Stillness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand. Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have.”

Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

“Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.”

Men Soul God Religious Forever Taken Ocean Sentiments Shells Echoes

Book:Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

“Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.”

Love Should Humans Mean Said God Human Beings Sin Taken Committed Commit Thee God Love Commandments God Image

Book:Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays

Source: Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays