“I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God — a union of two totally different kinds of beings.”
            On his Epistle to the Romans (1918; 1921). 
"Witness to an Ancient Truth" (1962)
        
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                                        John Burroughs, in "Religious Contrasts : Letters of Pantheist and a Churchman", in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 128, No. 4 (October 1921), p. 520. 
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                                        Lecture XX, see [Lectures on the Essence of Religion, Harper & Row, New York, 1967, 187, Transl. Ralph Manheim] German: [Vorlesungen über das Wesen der Religion, Wigand, Leipzig, 1851, 241] 
 Lectures on the Essence of Religion http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/lectures/index.htm (1851)
                                    
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 276.
                                        
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                                        Is there any certainty in religious matters? 2.The Bible gives us wonderful certainties. p. 166 
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“What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?”
                                        
                                        Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen? 
Maxims and Arrows, 7 
Variant: Which? Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders? 
Source: Twilight of the Idols (1888)