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I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
Thomas Edison1847–1931The Freethinker (1970), G.W. Foote & Company, Volume 90, p. 147
Why is it when we talk to God we’re said to be praying — but when God talks to us, we’re said to be schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlinborn 1939Contributions of Jane Wagner
- Prayer
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
Augustine of Hippo354–430X, 27, as translated in Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J. (1980) edited by William J. Kelly
- Love
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
Augustine of Hippo354–430De Libero Arbitrio (388—395)
- Theology
When all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)In context
- Religion
- Theology
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
James Baldwin1924–1987“Letter from a Region of My Mind”
The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 2 : Religion
- Theology
Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for himself is love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves and carry with it all that is ours.
Jeremy Taylor1613–1667Holy Living (1650), ch. 4, section 3.
- Love
God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Fireflies (1928), 25
- Good & Evil
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30Revelation 22:13
Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008“The Mind of the Machine” in Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations (1972)
One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love — to serve the loved one without his knowing it — is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.
Simone Weil1909–1943Last Notebook (1942) p. 84
- Atheism
- Love
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Stray Birds (1916), 77
- Children
When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity⁠— that was a quality God’s image carried with it.
Graham Greene1904–1991The Power and the Glory (1940)
- Emotion
He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, First Revelation, Ch. 8
- Love