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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
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
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer1886–1918Trees (1913)In context
- Poetry
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968
I just want to do God’s will.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
If I were damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Mother o’ Mine (1891).
- Family
- Prayer
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget⁠—lest we forget!
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Recessional (1897)In context
- History
God is only a great imaginative experience.
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence, pt. 4, ed. by E. McDonald, (1936)
The Bedouin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
T. E. Lawrence1888–1935Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)
- Faith
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.
Timothy Leary1920–1996Harvard Law School Forum (1966)
- Science
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John Lennon1940–1980John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970), “God”
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity
- Atheism
A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere⁠—‘Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,’ as Herbert says, ‘fine nets and stratagems.’ God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Surprised by Joy (1955), Ch. XII: “Guns and Good Company”
- Atheism