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Quotes about God


We are only figments of God's imagination.

Why is it when we talk to God we're praying—but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Lily Tomlin

I have no enemies, O God, but if I am to have an enemy Let his strength be equal to mine, That truth alone may be the victor.

Kahlil Gibran

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!

Michel de Montaigne

Make me, oh God, the prey of the lion, ere You make the rabbit my prey.

Kahlil Gibran

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.

Rabindranath Tagore

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.

Rabindranath Tagore

God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

Montaigne

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Cato the Younger

Dear God, Did you mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident?

Norma [Children's Letters to God, 1991]

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Aurobindo Ghose

God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures.

Mahatma Gandhi

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

Friedrich Nietzsche

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.

Swedish proverb

Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.

Rabindranath Tagore

The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration.

Paul Brunton

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Dorothy Parker

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Emily Dickinson

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

Anatole France

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