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Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
EUGENE O'NEILL, The Great God Brown
- God moves in a mysterious way
- His wonders to perform;
- He plants his footsteps in the sea,
- And rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPER, Olney Hymns
God is a witness that cannot be sworn.
Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
BIBLE, Ecclesiastes 12:13
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.
ALBERT EINSTEIN, The World as I See it
Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.
GAO XINGJIAN, The Other Shore
- What shall I do, if all my love,
- My hopes, my toil, are cast away,
- And if there be no God above,
- To hear and bless me when I pray?
ANNE BRONTE, The Doubter's Prayer
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
The way to God is by our selves.
PHINEAS FLETCHER, The Purple Island
- All powers, all laws, are but the fair
- Embodied thoughts of God.
JOHN STUART BLACKIE, All things are full of God
I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.
VINCENT VAN GOGH, letter to Theo van Gogh, Jul. 1880
- Earth's crammed with heaven,
- And every common bush afire with God;
- But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,
- The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries,
- And daub their natural faces unaware.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Aurora Leigh
The nearer the Church the further from God.
LANCELOT ANDREWES, Sermon on the Nativity before James I
God is dead: but considering the state of the species Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Die frohliche Wissenschaft
Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't even look back over his shoulder. And then what will you do?
HAROLD PINTER, Ashes to Ashes
- And almost every one when age,
- Disease, or sorrows strike him,
- Inclines to think there is a God,
- Or something very like Him.
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH, Dipsychus
There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE, The Captain and the Enemy
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
An honest God's the noblest work of man.
SAMUEL BUTLER, Further Extracts from the Note Books
When men make gods, there is no God!
EUGENE O'NEILL, Lazarus Laughed
Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.
J.B.S. HALDANE, Possible Worlds and Other Papers
After 9/11, there were a lot of things being said about how the God of Islam and the God of the Christian faith were one and the same, but that's simply not true ... The God that I worship does not require me to kill other people. The God that I worship tells me I am to love my enemy, to give him food when he's hungry and water when he's thirsty.
FRANKLIN GRAHAM, Newsweek, Aug. 14, 2006
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear.
ANATOLE FRANCE, The Gods Will Have Blood
At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
SIGMUND FREUD, Totem and Taboo
- Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us
- O'er the world's tempestuous sea;
- Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us,
- For we have no help but Thee.
JAMES EDMESTON, Lead Us, Heavenly Father
God is subtle, but he is not malicious.
- God is a foreman with certain definite views
- Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.
- The flame of my life burns low
- Under the cluttered days,
- Like a fire of leaves.
- But always a little blue, sweet-smelling smoke
- Goes up to God.
KARLE WILSON BAKER, Blue Smoke
God helps them that helps themselves.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanac
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Sonnets from the Portuguese
- Where sanity is
- there God is.
- God is the perfect poet,
- Who in his person acts his own creations.
ROBERT BROWNING, Paracelsus
- Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,
- But God to man doth speak in solitude.
JOHN STUART BLACKIE, Highland Solitude
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