Quote by Georges Bataille
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is e

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. – Georges Bataille

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Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys ones equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established. – Georges Bataille

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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. – Georges Bataille

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If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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On the field Im trying to play for the glory of God but then also Im trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when were playing. – Tim Tebow

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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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