It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Henceforth the majesty of God revere;
Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
I should say that the universe is just there, and that is all.
God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.
God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of all rationality.
God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.