Quotes about God
512 quotes from 237 people
Baruch Spinoza1632–1677Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg , November (1675)
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Religion and Science (1935)- Baruch Spinoza1632–1677Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg , November (1675)
Philip James Bailey1816–1902Festus (1839), Proem
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Good Sense without God (Le Bon Sens, 1772), sect. 30I don’t think I’ve found God, but I may have seen where gods come from.
Terry Pratchett1948–2015“I create gods all the time—now I think one might exist” (2008)Divinity reveals herself in all things… everything has Divinity latent within itself.
Giordano Bruno1548–1600The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (1584), tr. Arthur Imerti (1964)I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do.
Leonard Cohen1934–2016Warsaw concert (1985), Introducing “Hallelujah”God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Jivan-smitri
Homer900–800 BCThe Iliad (750 BC), Iliad, V. 440–442 (tr. Samuel Butler); Apollo to DiomedesIn context
Sam Harrisborn 1967Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 51
John D. Rockefeller1839–1937Interview with William Hoster, quoted in God’s Gold (1932) by John T. Flynn
Penn Jilletteborn 1955God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales (2011), p. xiiiYou don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu1931–2021Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)