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.
He knows nothing about crimes, or else he weighs them in unjust balances.
Great god of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
Who says he is equal with God?
Man is to-day, to-morrow he is not,
Iam is from eternity to eternity.
God cursed the Jews, therefore they don't deserve a country.