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I always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: “O Lord, make our enemies quite ridiculous!” God granted it.
Voltaire1694–1778Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville (16 May 1767)
- Enemies
- Prayer
It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
Voltaire1694–1778Letter to François-Louis-Henri Leriche (6 February 1770)
- War & Peace
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one’s sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Bk. XIV, ch. 15
- Life & Death
- Love
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), Chapter XII, Conclusion—Repent Ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand
- Life & Death
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The God Delusion (2006) (p. 40)
- Atheism
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Root of All Evil? (2006)
- Atheism
I saw within Its depth how It conceives
all things in a single volume bound by Love,
of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso, Canto XXXIII, lines 85–87 (tr. Ciardi)
- Love
The best way to worship God is to love your wife.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers
- Marriage
The way you use the word “God” does not show whom you mean — but, rather, what you mean.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Retribution, from Friedrich von Logau, Sinngedichte, III, 2, 24
- Justice
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), Part IV, John Alden.
- America
We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
Carl Jung1875–1961The Symbolic Life (1953)
- Sleep
So Einstein was wrong when he said, “God does not play dice.” Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can’t be seen.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018During the same 1994 exchange with Penrose as the previous quote, transcribed in The Nature of Space and Time (1996) by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, p. 26 and also in “The Nature of Space and Time” (online text)
- Science
Every wish
Is like a prayer⁠—with God.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Aurora Leigh (1857), Bk. II
- Prayer
Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods.
Socrates470–399 BCDiogenes Laertius