Olive Schreiner - God Quotes

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Olive Schreiner

I said to God, 'What are they doing?'
God said, 'Making pitfalls into which their fellows may sink.'
I said to God, 'Why do they do it?'
God said, 'Because each thinks that when his brother falls he will rise.'

Olive Schreiner

God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.'

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Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

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