“Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu, – very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.”

“Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu, – very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.”

— Julius Charles Hare