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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.

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The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept "God."

Anthony de Mello One Minute Wisdom (1989)

God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late,
They touch the shining hills of day;
The evil cannot brook delay,
The good can well afford to wait.

John Greenleaf Whittier Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The thinking of art seems final when
The thinking of god is smoky dew.

Wallace Stevens The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.

Konrad Adenauer A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965)

I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.

Augusto Pinochet

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.

Hans Frank

Fear God, and take your own part.

George Borrow The Romany Rye (1857)

I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is … for 26 years I had never really looked at it before.

A. J. Ayer

Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.

Zeno of Citium

So every day
I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God, one of which was you.

Mary Oliver Red Bird (2008)

I am not sorry for what I did because it was God's will.

Omar Mukhtar Trial proceedings (1931)

“Some god must be laughing somewhere.”
“Some god is always laughing. That is, if you believe in them, which is surely enough to make them laugh.”

Tanith Lee Quest for the White Witch (1978)

If God—exalted is He—is Creator of everything, He creates good and evil on account of the wise purpose that He has in that by virtue of which His action is good and perfect.

Ibn Taymiyya

Detachment from worldly things is the most essential qualification required for a true dervish. His separation from everything, including his own self is the only way for the realization of kingship with God.

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

"God is a king whose throne resides in every kind and honest soul."

Juraj Jurjević Zimzelene starine (1983)

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Solomon

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

Joseph Stalin

I won't say goodbye, I'll just say until we meet again. To God be the glory.

Oprah Winfrey

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

Swami Vivekananda

Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?

Andrei Tarkovsky Sculpting in Time (1986)

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