Quotes about God
512 quotes from 237 people
Euripides481–407 BCBacchae, ll. 882–884 (Bartlett’s, 14th ed. 1968)
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence, pt. 4, ed. by E. McDonald, (1936)
Albert Einstein1879–1955Remark during his first visit to Princeton University (April 1921), as quoted in R. W. Clark, Einstein (1973), Ch. 14
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #83
Thomas Aquinas1225–1274Opuscule II, De Regno (On Kingship, c. 1267)
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), page 55, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Tell My Horse (1938), Ch. 15, p. 219
Robert Burns1759–1796A Winter Night (1787)
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965“1901”, p. 67
Miyamoto Musashi1584–1645DokkodoMan flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
It is not well for a man to pray, cream; and live, skim milk.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Life Thoughts (1858), p. 64The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Critical Path (1981)God in his wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.
Ogden Nash1902–1971Good Intentions (1942), “The Fly”The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Letter to William James (24 March 1907).
