Quotes about God
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It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author – and not to learn it better.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Beyond Good and Evil (1886), Chapter IV, aphorism 121It is easy to see how superstition, with its false glosses, mocks God, while it tries to please him.
John Calvin1509–1564Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559), Book 1, Chapter 4, p. 54
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Speech delivered at the Yad Vashem Museum at Jerusalem, Israel—March 23, 2000
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Letter to Richard Aldington (24 February 1927)
John Adams1735–1826Letter to John Quincy Adams (16 June 1816)
Thomas Aquinas1225–1274Summa contra Gentiles (1259–1265), III, 130, 3
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Letter to Thurlow Weed (15 March 1865), reproduced in Lord Charnwood (1916), Abraham Lincoln: A Biography
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Mother o’ Mine (1891).
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774); The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (19 Vols., 1905) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 1, p. 211
Robert Browning1812–1889Pippa Passes (1841), Part IV.
Annie Besant1847–1933The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant
John Donne1572–1631Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God (1633), Holy Sonnets, No. 14, line 12In context
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)- Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)