Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
-Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler Quotes – The youth of an art is..
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – Faith – you can do very little with it..
Faith – you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – A drunkard would not give money to sober people..
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be..
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be..
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name..
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods..
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises..
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
-Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler Quotes – From a worldly point of view..
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
-Samuel Butler