...prayer which I saw quoted in a newspaper the other day," commented Helen. " It ran like 286 this : ' O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul ! ' " " That was Pascal, surely ? " said Hilda. " I was reminded rather of Queen Victoria's very clearly...

...honest doubts about the existence of God, who are willing to subscribe to the agnostic's prayer, O God, if there be a God, save my soul if I have a soul ! It is the task of philosophy to estimate the values of these several attitudes to life. When philosophy...

...conspiracy, have entered into bliss after such a prayer as that uttered by him on the gallows : 54 " O God — if there be a God — save my soul — if I have a soul ! " Sometimes the pathos of deathbed profanity becomes holy in its very naivete. Such, for instance,...

...conspiracy, have entered into bliss after such a prayer as that uttered by him on the gallows : " O God — if there be a God — save my soul — if I have a soul ! " Sometimes the pathos of deathbed profanity becomes holy by its very naivete. Such, for instance,...

...solution of my doubts; but (to my shame I say it) I was almost driven to that famous sceptic prayer, ' O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul.' [There was probably a little unconscious exaggeration in this.] "It is no use enquiring how this state...

...Experimenter." He is a god who is doing the best he can. We have all heard the "agnostic's prayer," "O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul." Wells's prayer, I imagine, is somewhat like that, and yet different. "O God, help me! Or, at least,...

...always when you are right"; and, in a letter, "If I were to pray, I should say, if I were candid, 'Oh, God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul!' " Before she left college, however, she resolved her doubts, and having passed untouched through more...

...possible to embrace with full internal assent. If this were to be allowed, then the celebrated saying, 'O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul!' would be the highest measure of devotion — but who can really pray to a Being, about whose existence...

...Simply as a bet it would to the Searcher of all hearts be no more than the celebrated short prayer, "O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul!" In fact, it is only the first step towards acquiring a genuine conviction. And Pascal does not leave...

...night and the "Bless all my kind friends" afterwards, I ended the liturgy with this supplication: "O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul." How came I to escape as well as I have done, considering the commonplaces of my education?! . . . Papa...