P. D. James - God Quotes

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If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

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All these problems are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.

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If you decide to do without a personal god it's illogical to saddle yourself with a legacy of Judeo-Christian sin. That way you suffer the psychological consequences of guilt without the consolation of absolution.

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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

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If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

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