Michel de Montaigne Quotes About God
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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
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Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.
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Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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God sends the cold according to the coat.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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