It is absurd to suppose, if this is God’s world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.
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 formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Implore God to deliver you from the wickedness of your soul.
When people seek the Lord with earnestness and are lost to themselves, God is met.
God's love claims him whose heart is reduced to ashes for Him.
Sufism is to eat little and to take rest with God, and to flee from men.
We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
The greatness of our God lies in the fact that He is both toughminded and tenderhearted.
Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
Through the incarnation God descended into nature in order to super-animate and take it back to him.
Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.