God Quotes
The writers with the most entries are not theologians: a Sufi saint, Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, then Shakespeare, Homer, Pope and Ovid. The sourced lines are mostly sceptical ones. Bertrand Russell, in Religion and Science (1935), says that with omnipotence and millions of years he would not think Man much to boast of, and Shaw, in 1903, warns against the man whose god is in the skies.
Three famous sayings are marked disputed. Voltaire’s clockwork-and-clockmaker line has no firm source. Newton’s remark that the thumb would convince him of God is reported from a palmistry article in Dickens’s magazine All the Year Round (1864). “I looked and looked but I didn’t see God,” credited to Yuri Gagarin, is traced in the notes only to a 2006 book.
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend,
Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.
That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
In living just as though no God there were.
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
God on His throne is
Eldest of poets:
Unto His measures
Moveth the Whole.