W. Somerset Maugham - God Quotes

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When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

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What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.

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Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

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Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

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Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

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From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

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I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

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When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.

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Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

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Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

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In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

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