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.
To be a god
First I must be a god-maker:
We are what we create.
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man.
God shall be my hope,
My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.
God is divine Principle, supreme incorporeal Being, Mind, Spirit, Soul, Life, Truth, Love.
O thou, whose certain eye foresees
The fix'd event of fate's remote decrees.
The glory of God is not contingent on man's good will, but all existence subserves his purposes.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
What is God? The eternal One Life underneath all the forms of life.