Quotes about God
512 quotes from 237 people
William Tyndale1494–1536Last reported words before being strangled and then burnt in 1536
Sun Tzu544–496 BCThe Art of War- ?UnattributedOften credited to C. S. Lewis
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 376
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Pearls of Wisdom
Voltaire1694–1778Épître à l’Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs (10 November 1770)- Voltaire1694–1778Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville (16 May 1767)
It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
Voltaire1694–1778Letter to François-Louis-Henri Leriche (6 February 1770)
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)Maybe God has let everybody who ever lived be reborn — so he or she can see how it ends.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970), “Dr. Norbert Woodley”I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Alice Walkerborn 1944The Color Purple (1982)
Max Weber1864–1920Max Weber, The Rejection of the World and Theodicy, 1916.
Simone Weil1909–1943Last Notebook (1942) p. 84
