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God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these. ↗

— Athanasius

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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him. ↗

— Mary Astell

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If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.' ↗

— Mary Astell

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Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven. ↗

— Athanasius

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world. ↗

— Mary Austin

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