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.
While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones.
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.
I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.
If the government does not adjust the electricity rate, then even God could not operate Taipower.
Above all things I wish God's glory and next the queen's safety.
Fear of God is king that dwells only in the heart of a pious one.
If one tear falls on account of fear of God, it is better then fasting throughout life.
He who becomes oblivious of God for a moment, is as good as infidel although impliedly.