Famously Said Random quote

Quotes about God

512 quotes from 237 people

Most readBy personPage 3 of 35

If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion.
Goncourt brothersJanuary 24, 1868; translation from Robert Baldick (ed. and trans.) Pages from the Goncourt Journal (London: Oxford University Press, 1962) p. 135.
- Atheism
- Religion
Other than heaven, the only place where one’s heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Theology
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lords side.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Reported in Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1867), p. 282
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God’s eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1963)
- Prayer
You don’t have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
?UnattributedOften credited to C. S. Lewis
- Theology
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
Galileo Galilei1564–1642
- Science
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Peter Carr (1787), Scan of the original page at The Library of Congress.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book I, Chapter 5, “We Have Cause to Be Uneasy”
- Morality
God is not proud…He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. VI
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952) ch. 1
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
- Prayer
It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Victorian Age in Literature (1913), Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists (p. 73)
- Atheism
If the universe is so bad…how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain