Quotes about God
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Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 1 “Explaining the Very Improbable” (p. 6)God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.
Robert Browning1812–1889Paracelsus (1835), Part 2.There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.
Heywood Broun1888–1939“A New Preface to an Old Story”, Broun’s Nutmeg, August 19, 1939A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950BhaktiGod will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. X: “Heaven”Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter X: On living to oneself, Line 5.God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Augustine of Hippo354–430Enchiridion (c. 420 ), Ch. 27Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Isaiah766–686 BCThe Book of Isaiah (c. 800–500 B.C.), 40:8 KJVFor 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. 4That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
In living just as though no God there were.Robert Browning1812–1889Paracelsus (1835), Part 1.I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.
James Baldwin1924–1987“In Search of a Majority” address delivered at Kalamazoo College (February 1960)God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Thirteenth Revelation, Ch. 40O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother;
where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.
John Greenleaf Whittier1807–1892Worship, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)