Dialogue

 1 Phileb|   difficulty as the conception of God existing both in and out
 2 Phileb|    reality, which we attribute to God, he had no conception.~The
 3 Phileb|         modern mode of conceiving God.~a. To Plato, the idea of
 4 Phileb|          a. To Plato, the idea of God or mind is both personal
 5 Phileb|           him, and in speaking of God both in the masculine and
 6 Phileb|          he speaks at one time of God or Gods, and at another
 7 Phileb|       identify a first cause with God, and the final cause with
 8 Phileb|         very far from confounding God with the world, tends to
 9 Phileb|        parents,’ ‘thou shalt fear God.’ What more does he want?~
10 Phileb|         more reasonable than that God should will the happiness
11 Phileb|         of faith or the spirit of God. The difficulties of ethics
12 Phileb|        sacred to us,—‘the word of God’ written on the human heart:
13 Phileb|         is not ‘doing the will of God for the sake of eternal
14 Phileb|             but doing the will of God because it is best, whether
15 Phileb|            resting on the will of God, says another; based upon
16 Phileb|           man is also the will of God. This is an easy test to
17 Phileb|         the good of men is not of God. And the ideal of the greatest
18 Phileb|        believed to be the will of God, when compared with the
19 Phileb|            and to understand that God wills the happiness, not
20 Phileb| principles of morals:—the will of God revealed in Scripture and
21 Phileb|          we must ask What will of God? how revealed to us, and
22 Phileb|       wisdom, truth; these are to God, in whom they are personified,
23 Phileb|      consciousness of the will of God that all men should be as
24 Phileb|        which combines the will of God with our highest ideas of
25 Phileb|        First, the eternal will of God in this world and in another,—
26 Phileb|         fulfilment of the will of God in this world, and co-operation
27 Phileb| Anaxagoras has become the Mind of God and of the World. The great
28 Phileb|          you mean?~SOCRATES: Some god or divine man, who in the
29 Phileb|         my fear; and, moreover, a god seems to have recalled something
30 Phileb|           Were we not saying that God revealed a finite element
31 Phileb|         me that.~SOCRATES: Rather God will tell you, if there
32 Phileb|         tell you, if there be any God who will listen to my prayers.~
33 Phileb|           and I believe that some God has befriended us.~PROTARCHUS:
34 Phileb|      importance of your favourite god.~SOCRATES: And you, my friend,
35 Phileb|     Hephaestus, or whoever is the god who presides over the ceremony