Quotes about God
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A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of Creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), The Gay Science (1882), Sec. 108In contextIt was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author – and not to learn it better.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Beyond Good and Evil (1886), Chapter IV, aphorism 121I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Notes from Devotional Authors of the Middle Ages (1873-1874)He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, First Revelation, Ch. 8God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Thirteenth Revelation, Ch. 40- Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Sixteenth Revelation, Ch. 86
- Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Fourteenth Revelation, Ch. 43
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 1Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue!
Eugene O'Neill1888–1953The Great God Brown (1926), Act 4, Scene 1It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, line 637- Ovid43 BC–AD 17Fasti, Book II, line 117
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige1906–1982New York Post (4 October 1959)
Thomas Paine1737–1809Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)