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One difference between God’s work and man’s is, that, while God’s work cannot mean more than he meant, man’s must mean more than he meant.
George MacDonald1824–1905The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
- Art
However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between God and us.
Maimonides1138–1204Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.9
- Theology
When all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)In context
- Religion
- Theology
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
Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:
Think’st thou that I, who saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,
In being depriv’d of everlasting bliss?
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by MephistophilisIn context
- Religion
The more man puts into God, the less he retains in himself. The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him, but to the object.
Karl Marx1818–1883
- Anti-God
- Work
What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965“1901”, p. 67
- Anti-Religion
Me and Jesus are cool. I’m cool with all the gods. Gods recognize gods.
Conor McGregorborn 1988“UFC 197 press conference” (January 2016), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
- Pride
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
DMDelos McKown
- Anti-God
Don’t try to be a perfectionist. That’s God’s job.
JMJason Mechalek
Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm?
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CXXXIIIn context
- Freedom
Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Often credited to Voltaire
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
- Theology
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
- Theology
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