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Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men.
Jean-Paul Sartre1905–1980The Flies (1943), Act 3
- Freedom
Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor. Only a god can save us.
Martin Heidegger1889–1976Only a God Can Save Us (1966; 1976)
- Philosophy
I was thirteen when I had a Voice from God for my help and guidance.
JAJoan of Arc1412–1431Second public examination (22 February 1431)
- Faith
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
JAJoan of Arc1412–1431Trial of condemnation, examination in prison (17 March 1431)
- War & Peace
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Gitanjali (1912), 28
- Prayer
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Stray Birds (1916), 51
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Prayer
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah766–686 BCIsaiah 40:5 (ESV)
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Moses1393–1273 BCDeuteronomy 6:4-5 (KJV)
- Love
I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I’m dead.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
- Atheism
- Morality
To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Notebooks 1914-1916, entry for 8 July 1916
- Faith
The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955“The Evolution of Chastity” (February 1934), in Toward the Future (1975), trans. René Hague
- Love
I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), ch. 6, How Will It All End?
Prayer uniteth the soul to God.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Fourteenth Revelation, Ch. 43
- Prayer
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393), Chapter 1
- Love