"What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants."
-Joseph Wood Krutch
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"If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.“
-Joseph Wood Krutch
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"Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do."
-Joseph Wood Krutch
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"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."
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"The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only."
-Joseph Wood Krutch
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"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder."
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"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."
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"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."
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"The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned."
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"We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level."
-Karen Armstrong
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