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, to me, it seems
is a verb,
not a noun,
proper or improper.
I read his awful name, emblazon'd high
With golden letters on th' illumin'd sky.
Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God.
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
God bless mommy and daddy, and please can we have some candy.
I pray to God that I may not have to live through what I see coming.