Quotes about God
512 quotes from 237 people
Wernher von Braun1912–1977From a letter to the California State board of Education (14 September 1972)
Sylvia Plath1932–1963Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (February 1956)Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond SebondI think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Alice Walkerborn 1944The Color Purple (1982)
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Impact of Science on Society (1952)
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Pearls of Wisdom
Isaiah766–686 BCThe Book of Isaiah (c. 800–500 B.C.), 9:6
Ramakrishna1836–1886The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 169
William Tyndale1494–1536Last reported words before being strangled and then burnt in 1536The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986Other Inquisitions (1952)It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, line 637
Dylan Thomas1914–1953Poetic Manifesto (1951)
Rumi1207–1273IV, Story 4 (tr. Whinfield)
Oliver Cromwell1599–1658Letter to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 July 1644), following the Battle of Marston Moor.
