LOC_SDG_FlavorQuotes.sql

INSERT OR REPLACE INTO LocalizedText 
(Tag, Text, Language) VALUES

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER11', 'Augustine', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER11_DESCRIPTION', 'If you comprehend, it is not God.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER12', 'Max Muller', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER12_DESCRIPTION', 'He who knows one religion, knows none.', 'en_US'),

-- 2
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER13', 'Soren Kierkegaard', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER13_DESCRIPTION', 'God does not think, he creates[NEWLINE]God does not exist, he is eternal.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER14', '1 John', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER14_DESCRIPTION', 'God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER15', 'A.W. Tozer', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER15_DESCRIPTION', 'What comes to mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER16', 'Gary Randall', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER16_DESCRIPTION', 'No matter how bad things are, a person is only one choice away from fixing it all.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER17', 'Augustine', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER17_DESCRIPTION', 'You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER18', 'C.S. Lewis', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER18_DESCRIPTION', 'I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER19', 'Dorothy Sayers', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER19_DESCRIPTION', 'None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can''t teach people that—they have to learn by experience.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER20', 'Buddha', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER20_DESCRIPTION', 'Let a man overcome anger by kindness, evil by good. Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy. Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred. Hatred ceases by love.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER21', 'Kurt Vonnegut', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER21_DESCRIPTION', 'If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:[NEWLINE]THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED[NEWLINE]FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD[NEWLINE]WAS MUSIC', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER22', 'William James', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER22_DESCRIPTION', 'It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER23', 'C.S. Lewis', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER23_DESCRIPTION', '"I wish I had never been born," she said.  "What are we born for?"[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]"For infinite happiness," said the Spirit.  "You can step out into it at any moment..."', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER24', 'Mahalia Jackson', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER24_DESCRIPTION', 'There are some things I may not know[NEWLINE]There are some places I cannot go[NEWLINE]But I am sure of this one thing[NEWLINE]That God is real[NEWLINE]For I can feel Him in my soul', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER25', 'Will Durant', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER25_DESCRIPTION', 'That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty an ethic and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER26', 'Bob Dylan', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER26_DESCRIPTION', 'I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea[NEWLINE]Sometimes I turn, there''s someone there, other times it''s only me[NEWLINE]I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man[NEWLINE]Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER27', 'C.S. Lewis', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER27_DESCRIPTION', 'We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven—a senile benevolence who, as they say, ''liked to see young people enjoying themselves'' and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, ''a good time was had by all''.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER28', 'Buddha', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER28_DESCRIPTION', 'There is nothing stranger in the history of religion than the sight of Buddha founding a worldwide religion, and yet refusing to be drawn into any discussion about eternity, immortality, or God.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]—The Story of Civilization, volume 1: Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant (pg 431)', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER29', 'Albert Einstein', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER29_DESCRIPTION', 'Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER30', 'C.S. Lewis', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER30_DESCRIPTION', 'Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER31', 'Will Durant', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER31_DESCRIPTION', 'Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]You may think that''s a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you''ll eventually get along.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER32', 'Johann Wolfgang von Goethe', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER32_DESCRIPTION', 'No matter how far our spiritual culture may continue to progress, no matter how much the natural sciences may grow, becoming ever more profound and more inclusive, no matter how much the human spirit may will to expand, that human spirit will never escape from the majesty and ethical sublimity of Christianity, as it shimmers and shines in the Gospels.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER33', 'J.B.S. Haldane', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER33_DESCRIPTION', 'It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER34', 'William James', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER34_DESCRIPTION', 'I think that yesterday was a crisis in my life. I finished the first part of Renouvier''s second Essais and see no reason why his definition of free will—"the sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts"—need be the definition of an illusion. At any rate, I will assume for the present—until next year—that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER35', 'Blaise Pascal', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER35_DESCRIPTION', 'All of our visible world is but an imperceptible speck in the great bosom of nature. No thought can go so far, it is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere. This is the most perceivable feature of the almightiness of God, so that our imagination loses itself in this thought.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER36', 'George MacDonald', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER36_DESCRIPTION', '"In the midst of life we are in death," said one; it is more true that in the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow—a word for that which cannot be—a negation, owing the very idea of itself to that which it would deny. But for life there could be no death. If God were not, there would not even be nothing. Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER37', 'Alice Cooper', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER37_DESCRIPTION', 'When you believe in God, you''ve got to believe in the all-powerful God. He''s not just God, He''s the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone''s life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that''s trying his hardest to tear your life apart. If you believe that this is just mythology, you''re a prime target because you know that''s exactly what Satan wants: To be a myth. But he''s not a myth, of this I''m totally convinced. More than anything in the world, I''m convinced of that.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER38', 'William James', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER38_DESCRIPTION', 'There are moments of sentimental and mystical experience... that carry an enormous sense of inner authority and illumination with them when they come. But they come seldom, and they do not come to everyone; and the rest of life makes either no connection with them, or tends to contradict them more than it confirms them. Some persons follow more the voice of the moment in these cases, some prefer to be guided by the average results. Hence the sad discordancy of so many of the spiritual judgments of human beings.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER39', 'Blaise Pascal', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER39_DESCRIPTION', 'It is impossible that our mind could be other than spiritual. If any one contends that we are simply matter, this would put us even further from the truth, there being nothing so inconceivable as to say that matter knows itself. It is impossible to imagine how it could know itself.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties... and yet it is his very being.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER40', 'Francis of Assisi', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER40_DESCRIPTION', 'Let none of the brothers, wherever he may be or whithersoever he may go, carry or receive money or coin in any manner, or cause it to be received, either for clothing, or for books, or as the price of any labor, or indeed for any reason, except on account of the manifest necessity of the sick brothers. For we ought not to have more use and esteem of money and coin than of stones. And the devil seeks to blind those who desire or value it more than stones. Let us therefore take care lest after having left all things we lose the kingdom of heaven for such a trifle. And if we should chance to find money in any place, let us no more regard it than the dust we tread under our feet.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER41', 'Augustine', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER41_DESCRIPTION', 'Late have I loved you, beauty so ancient and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with you. The lovely things kept me far from you, though if they did not have their existence in you, they had no existence at all. You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER42', 'John Templeton', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER42_DESCRIPTION', 'Let''s worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension... The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It''s self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity... We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It''s like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can''t do it. It doesn''t have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn''t it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER43', 'Buddha', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER43_DESCRIPTION', '1. Now this, O Monks, is the noble truth of pain: birth is painful, sickness is painful, old age is painful, sorrow, lamentation, dejection and despair are painful.[NEWLINE]2. Now this, O monks, is the noble truth of the cause of pain: that craving, which leads to rebirth, combined with pleasure and lust, finding pleasure here and there, namely, the craving for passion, the craving for existence, the craving for non-existence.[NEWLINE]3. Now this, O monks, is the noble truth of the cessation of pain: the cessation, without a remainder, of that craving; abandonment, forsaking, release, non-attachment.[NEWLINE]4. Now this, O monks, is the noble truth of the way that leads to the cessation of pain: this is the noble Eightfold Way: namely, right views, right intention, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER44', 'Annie Besant', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER44_DESCRIPTION', 'For so reverent is God to that Spirit which is Himself in man, that He will not even pour into the human soul a flood of strength and life unless that soul is willing to receive it. There must be an opening from below as well as an outpouring from above, the receptiveness of the lower nature as well as the willingness of the higher to give. That is the link between the Christ and the man; that is what the churches have called the outpouring of "divine grace"; that is what is meant by the "faith" necessary to make the grace effective.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]As Giordano Bruno once put it—the human soul has windows, and can shut those windows close. The sun outside is shining, the light is unchanging; let the windows be opened and the sunlight must stream in. The light of God is beating against the windows of every human soul, and when the windows are thrown open, the soul becomes illuminated.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER45', 'Joyce Kilmer', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER45_DESCRIPTION', 'I think that I shall never see[NEWLINE]A poem lovely as a tree.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]A tree whose hungry mouth is prest[NEWLINE]Against the sweet earth''s flowing breast;[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]A tree that looks at God all day,[NEWLINE]And lifts her leafy arms to pray;[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]A tree that may in summer wear[NEWLINE]A nest of robins in her hair;[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]Upon whose bosom snow has lain;[NEWLINE]Who intimately lives with rain.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]Poems are made by fools like me,[NEWLINE]But only God can make a tree.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER46', 'C.S. Lewis', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER46_DESCRIPTION', 'Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise. The longings which arise in us when we first fall in love, or first think of some foreign country, or first take up some subject that excites us, are longings which no marriage, no travel, no learning, can really satisfy. There was something we grasped at, in that first moment of longing, which just fades away in the reality.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER47', 'Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa)', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER47_DESCRIPTION', 'The first bambeday, or religious retreat, marked an epoch in the life of the youth... Having first prepared himself by means of the purifying vapor-bath, and cast off as far as possible all human or fleshly influences, the young man sought out the noblest height, the most commanding summit in all the surrounding region. Knowing that God sets no value upon material things, he took with him no offerings or sacrifices other than symbolic objects, such as paints and tobacco. Wishing to appear before Him in all humility, he wore no clothing save his moccasins and breech-clout. At the solemn hour of sunrise or sunset he took up his position, overlooking the glories of earth and facing the ''Great Mystery,'' and there he remained, naked, erect, silent, and motionless, exposed to the elements and forces of His arming, for a night and a day to two days and nights, but rarely longer. Sometimes he would chant a hymn without words, or offer the ceremonial ''filled pipe.'' In this holy trance or ecstasy the Native American mystic found his highest happiness and the motive power of his existence.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER48', 'John Betjeman', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER48_DESCRIPTION', 'And is it true,[NEWLINE]This most tremendous tale of all,[NEWLINE]Seen in a stained-glass window''s hue,[NEWLINE]A Baby in an ox''s stall?[NEWLINE]The Maker of the stars and sea[NEWLINE]Become a Child on earth for me?[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]And is it true? For if it is,[NEWLINE]No loving fingers tying strings[NEWLINE]Around those tissued fripperies,[NEWLINE]The sweet and silly Christmas things,[NEWLINE]Bath salts and inexpensive scent[NEWLINE]And hideous tie so kindly meant,[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]No love that in a family dwells,[NEWLINE]No carolling in frosty air,[NEWLINE]Nor all the steeple-shaking bells[NEWLINE]Can with this single Truth compare:[NEWLINE]That God was man in Palestine[NEWLINE]And lives today in Bread and Wine.', 'en_US'),

('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER49', 'Confucius', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER49_DESCRIPTION', 'The ancients who wished to see the highest virtue throughout the empire began by ordering well their own states. Wishing to order well their own states, they began by regulating their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they began by cultivating their own selves. Wishing to cultivate their own selves, they began by rectifying their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they began by seeking sincerity in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they began by gathering knowledge about all that was around them. This knowledge came from the impartial investigation of the nature of things.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their own selves were cultivated. Their own selves being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed, the whole empire was made tranquil and happy.', 'en_US'),



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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER50', 'Theresa of Avila', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER50_DESCRIPTION', 'I saw an angel close by me, on my left side, in bodily form. He was not large, but small of stature, and most beautiful—his face burning, as if he were one of the highest angels, who seem to be all of fire: they must be those whom we call cherubim.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron''s point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it, even a large one. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER51', 'George MacDonald', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER51_DESCRIPTION', 'Nothing is inexorable but love. Love that bends to prayer is imperfect and poor. Nor is it then the love that bends, but an alloy of love. Love does not grant a favor unwillingly; still less does it answer a prayer to the wrong or hurt of him who prays. Love is one and love is changeless.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]Love loves unto purity.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]Love only sees the absolute potential loveliness of whatever it beholds. Wherever an object''s loveliness is incomplete, love spends itself to make the object more lovely, so that it may love it more. Love strives for perfection through perfecting the object. Love itself becomes more perfect in the object. It was Love who first created humanity, so even human love, in proportion to its divinity, will go on creating the beautiful for its own outpouring.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]There is nothing eternal but that which loves and can be loved. And Love is ever climbing towards the consummation when such shall be the universe. Therefore all that is not lovely or beautiful in the beloved, must be destroyed.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]And our God is a consuming fire.', 'en_US'),

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('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER52', 'G.K. Chesterton', 'en_US'),
('LOC_SDG_FOLLOWER52_DESCRIPTION', 'Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete. Alone of all creeds, Christianity has added courage to the virtues of the Creator. For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point—and does not break. In the account of Christ''s suffering, there is a distinct emotional suggestion that the author of all things (in some unthinkable way) went not only through agony, but through doubt. It is written, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." No; but the Lord thy God may tempt Himself; and it seems as if this was what happened in Gethsemane. When the world shook and the sun was wiped out of heaven, it was not at the crucifixion, but at the cry from the cross: the cry which confessed that God was forsaken of God.[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]And now let the revolutionists choose a creed from all the creeds and a god from all the gods of the world, carefully weighing all the gods of inevitable recurrence and of unalterable power. They will not find another god who has himself been in revolt. Nay (the matter grows too difficult for human speech), but let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist.', 'en_US') ;