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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet with a gift in’t.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Aurora Leigh (1857), Bk. II, l. 952
- Prayer
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib’d
In one self place; but where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1603), Act II, scene i, line 118In context
- Theology
Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. VI
- Atheism
Difficulties are God’s errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God’s confidence, — as a compliment from God.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 107
Others boast of their love for God. My boast is that I did not love God; it was He who loved me and sought me out and forced me to belong to Him.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Bhakti
- Love
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
John Adams1735–1826On the White House, in a letter to Abigail Adams (2 November 1800)
- Prayer
- Presidency
Whatever, over and above good life-conduct, man fancies that he can do to become well-pleasing to God is mere religious delusion and counterfeit worship of God.
Immanuel Kant1724–1804Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (1793), Book IV, Part 2, Section 2
- Religion
Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.
Annie Besant1847–1933Annie Besant: An Autobiography, p. 89
- Atheism
- Clever Jabs
To explain the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing, for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 6 “Origins and Miracles” (p. 141)
- Anti-God
- Science
Religion has two principal enemies, fanaticism and infidelity, or that which is called atheism. The first requires to be combated by reason and morality, the other by natural philosophy.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
- Atheism
- Religion
Father in heaven, when the thought of thee awakens in our soul, let it not waken as an agitated bird which flutters confusedly about, but as a child waking from sleep with a celestial smile.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
- Prayer
Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Baltimore Evening Sun (4 April 1927)
- Clever Jabs
- Theology
But men must know that in this theater of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon1561–1626The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book II, xx, 8
- Life & Death
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
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Vägmärken · Markings (1963), 1941–1942
- Prayer