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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.

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I fear no foe with Thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.

Henry Francis Lyte

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare King Lear (1608)

Alas! it is not well for anyone to be confident when the gods are adverse.

Virgil

Hoeder, the blind old god
Whose feet are shod with silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Or ask of yonder argent fields above
Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove.

Alexander Pope

To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that Love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

Thomas Merton Seeds of Contemplation (1949)

Oppressed and oppressors cannot possibly mean the same thing when they speak of God. The God of the oppressed is a God of revolution who breaks the chains of slavery. The oppressors' God is a God of slavery and must be destroyed along with the oppressors.

James H. Cone A Black Theology of Liberation (1970)

When man humbles himself, God cannot restrain His mercy; He must come down and pour His grace into the humble man, and He gives Himself most of all, and all at once, to the least of all.

Meister Eckhart Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.

Sarada Devi

True religion is again emerging in the hearts of men in every land; this recognition of a divine hope and background may possibly take people back into the church and into the world faiths, but it will most certainly take them back to God.

Alice Bailey

The one idea the Hindu religions differ in from every other in the world, the one idea to express which the sages almost exhaust the vocabulary of the Sanskrit language, is that man must realise God even in this life.

Swami Vivekananda

True religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the Supreme Being. Its noblest influence consists in making us more and more partakers of the Divinity.

William Ellery Channing Likeness to God (1828)

Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish God
Themselves are cherished.

Ovid

Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Alexander Pope

He made little, too little of sacraments and priests, because God was so intensely real to him. What should he do with lenses who stood thus full in the torrent of the sunshine.

Phillips Brooks

Is there any other seat of the Divinity than the earth, sea, air, the heavens, and virtuous minds? why do we seek God elsewhere? He is whatever you see; he is wherever you move.

Lucan

Nothing is void of God; He Himself fills His work.

Seneca the Younger

God's on your side? Shit, I'm alright with that. Because we're going to reload the clips and come right back.

50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin (2003)

He best honors God who makes his intellect as like God as possible.

Quintus Sextius

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