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Little Lamb who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee
William Blake1757–1827The Lamb (1789)In context
- Animals
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), “The Enemy—the Extraordinary”, p. 147
- Enemies
- Love
One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God.
Bonoborn 1960National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
- Religion
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986Other Inquisitions (1952)
- Time
How else can you fight God but to pretend He doesn’t exist?
CBChris Bowyer
- Atheism
A man should believe in God through faith, not because of miracles.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Faith
An angry man is unfit to pray.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Anger
- Prayer
Don’t ask God to change the laws of nature for you.
NBNachman of Bratslav
Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Charity
- Prayer
My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
Wernher von Braun1912–1977From a letter to the California State board of Education (14 September 1972)
- Science
One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.
Wernher von Braun1912–1977From a letter to the California State board of Education (14 September 1972)
- Science
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
David Brooksborn 1961
- Theology
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
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun1888–1939“A New Preface to an Old Story”, Broun’s Nutmeg, August 19, 1939
- Atheism
There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.
Heywood Broun1888–1939“A New Preface to an Old Story”, Broun’s Nutmeg, August 19, 1939
- Atheism