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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry Miller1891–1980The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949), Ch. 14, p. 341
- Courage
Men became scientific because they expected law in Nature; and they expected law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Miracles (1947), Ch. 3: “The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism”
- Science
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
Rumi1207–1273VI, 3640 (ed. Fadiman and Frager, 1997)
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin1814–1876Man, Society, and Freedom (1871)
- Anti-God
- Anti-Religion
The religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
J. D. Salinger1919–2010Zooey (1957)
- Religion
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana1863–1952Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
- Atheism
Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster?
Jeremy Taylor1613–1667Sermon XX, Part II
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Matthew (1611), Matthew 19:24 (KJV)In context
- Money
Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.
Simone Weil1909–1943“Faiths of Meditation; Contemplation of the divine” as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 417
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of John (1611), Gospel of John 17:3 (KJV)In context
- Christianity
Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.
Simone Weil1909–1943“Faiths of Meditation; Contemplation of the divine” as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 417
- Atheism
- Religion
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Letter to Eliza Gurney (4 September 1864); quoted in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 535
- Faith
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910What Men Live By (1881), Ch. XII
- Love
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony1820–1906Speech at the NAWSA convention (1896) against a resolution disavowing Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible; in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. IV (1902)
- Religion
The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God’s eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon IV: True Hearing