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The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Critical Path (1981)
- Truth & Lies
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei1564–1642Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
Galileo Galilei1564–1642
- Science
I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
- Truth & Lies
The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwara of Hindus.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Harijan, 14-5-1938, pp. 110-11; and The Hindustan Times, 5-5-1938, in Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 67, p. 64
- Religion
If there is a god, why did he make me an atheist? That was his first mistake. Well, the talking snake was his first mistake.
Ricky Gervaisborn 1961“Inside the Actors Studio,” 2009
- Atheism
- Comedy
Your thought advocates Judaism, Brahmanism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931Your Thought and Mine
- Religion
When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.”
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On LoveIn context
- Love
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
André Gide1869–1951Literature and Ethics, entry for 1901
Feeling is all in all:
The Name is sound and smoke,
Obscuring Heaven’s clear glow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene XVI, spoken by FaustIn context
- Emotion
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890Letter to his brother Theo, Cuesmes (July 1880)
- Love
I do not believe in God, because I believe in man.
Emma Goldman1869–1940Answering questions after a speech in Detroit (1898), as recounted in Living My Life (1931), p. 207
- Atheism
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remain’d to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith1728–1774The Deserted Village (1770), The Deserted VillageIn context
- Prayer
- Religion
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
We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
Angelina Grimké1805–1879