LORD BACON
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| "God has this attribute that He
is a jealous God; and therefore His worship and religion will endure no mixture nor
partner." (Bacon, 1876,10) "It
is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy
brings about man's mind to religion: for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes
scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the
chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and
Deity." "They that deny a God destroy man's nobility;
for certainly man is of kin to the beasts in his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by
his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature." "It is better to have no opinion of God at
all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him: for the one is unbelief the other is
contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity." |
BERGSON, HENRI
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| "God Who effectively reveals
Himself, Who illuminates and warms privileged souls with His presence." (Bergson, 1933, 214) "When
nations at war each declare that they have God on their side, the deity in question thus
becoming the national god of paganism, whereas the God they imagine they are evoking is a
God common to all mankind, the mere vision of Whom, could all men but attain it, would
mean the immediate abolition of war." "Those who have, from afar off, bowed their
head to the mystic word, because they have heard a faint echo of it within themselves,
will not remain indifferent to its message." |