God loves only those who are not concerned with anything else.
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.
God might not care about financial standing, but He was the only one.
Oh, God! it is a fearful thing
To see the human soul take wing
In any shape, in any mood.
God contemplates Himself and all things in an Eternal Now that has neither beginning nor end.
Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.
Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
You are happily being misunderstood in your use of the word "God".
Who would have thought that becoming God would be such a hollow victory.