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God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Essays, Intellect.
For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Poems (1847), Good-bye, st. 4
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Nature (1836), Nature
- Nature
They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Brahma (1857)In context
- Religion
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
Euripides481–407 BCBacchae, ll. 882–884 (Bartlett’s, 14th ed. 1968)
- Justice
Great treasure halls hath Zeus in heaven,
From whence to man strange dooms be given,
Past hope or fear.
And the end men looked for cometh not,
And a path is there where no man thought:
So hath it fallen here.
Euripides481–407 BCMedea (431 BC), Part 2, spoken by ChorusIn context
- Luck
God was always invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
Richard Feynman1918–1988interview published in Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1988) edited by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, p. 208-209 ISBN 0521354625
- Anti-God
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, and so I ask you to confirm me as your President with your prayers.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Our Long National Nightmare Is Over (1974)
- Prayer
- Presidency
If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
E. M. Forster1879–1970Aspects of the Novel (1927), Chapter Three: People
- Writing
God has put us on earth to love our neighbours and to show it, and He is omnipresent, even in India, to see how we are succeeding.
E. M. Forster1879–1970A Passage to India (1924), Part I: Mosque, Chapter VIn context
- Love
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth⁠—that God Governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Speech to the Constitutional Convention (28 June 1787)
Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost1874–1963In the Clearing (1962), “Forgive, O Lord”
- Forgiveness
God is a verb.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983