"Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost."
― Samuel Butler
Topic(s):
God
More From Samuel Butler
- "The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science."
- "An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."
- "A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."
More In God
- "God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with."― Billy Graham
- "God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness."― Aldous Huxley
- "Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God."― Henry Ward Beecher