Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.
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.
One human thought alone is worth more than the entire world, hence God alone is worthy of it.
May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.
Sir, an equation has no meaning for me unless it expresses a thought of GOD.
If we want a love which will protect the soul from wounds we must love something other than God.
All things are at odds when God lets a thinker loose on this planet.
You keep invoking some God but I don’t think he’s listening right now.
For God’s sake, reform and improve the politics of our country.
Saying it’s a sign from God is an interpretation, not a fact.
All humans action and inaction is the act and creation of God.
God has not given to mankind more gracious gift than patience and gnosis (marifāh).
For the gnostic of God it is highly irksome to sit and talk with the created beings.