"God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason."

God, Day, Reason, Wonder

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"God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason."

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"The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it."

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"The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being."

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"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."

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"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return."

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"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."

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"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."

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"Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up."

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"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

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"The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?"

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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

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"Conscience is God present in man."

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