“In human affairs, all that endures is what men think.”
Isabel Paterson (1886–1961) author and editor
Source: The God of the Machine (1943), p. 15
“That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as dæmons.”
Plato, 42.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 3: Plato
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Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American pastor
Statement co-authored with Joseph Fort Newton and Charles E. Jefferson, edited by Charles Steltzle, as quoted in The American Scrap Book (1928), p. 15; also in Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches (1930), p. 85
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 29).
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“There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.”
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Of himself, as quoted in A History of Western Philosophy (1945) by Bertrand Russell
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Religion Without God (1928). p. 90
John of St. Samson (1571–1636)
From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.266
