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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Friedrich NietzscheWhat was God doing before the divine creation?
Stephen Hawking‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
Isaac NewtonI believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
John LennonLet God’s promises shine on your problems.
Corrie Ten BoomJesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise PascalBut men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis BaconI sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar WildeI think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar WildeOf the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
Joan of ArcWhat I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
C. S. LewisGod, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
Mahatma GandhiWe are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
Franz KafkaGod’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
BonoIf you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody AllenStart with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King SolomonAs for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.
Charles SpurgeonEach one prays to God according to his own light.
Mahatma GandhiBut I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van GoghThere are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.
Thich Nhat HanhCall it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaTo us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas CarlyleThe God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Martin LutherThe god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William JamesIt is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaGod is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
HeraclitusBecause I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.
Ayrton SennaIn the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
Desmond TutuThe blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
PlatoThe major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
Paulo CoelhoWhatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
Martin LutherGod has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis BaconNature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander PopeI believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Henry FordBehold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThat God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul SartreWe’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee WilliamsTo believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
VoltaireForgiveness is God’s command.
Martin LutherGod’s first creature, which was light.
Francis BaconTo surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac AsimovThe best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van GoghPeople don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
Kurt VonnegutGod can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.
Joel OsteenGod not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen HawkingI die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
VoltaireA God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander PopeJust as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOnly one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark TwainNon-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Mahatma GandhiIf you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.
Charles SpurgeonThere is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
C. S. LewisOnly he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma GandhiNothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.
Charles SpurgeonNothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaPreparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.
Russell M. NelsonGod doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
ChanakyaThe will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.
Martin LutherI am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
Charlie ChaplinIt’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen Keller