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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900
- Anti-God
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
- Prayer
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Theology
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up⁠—they have no holidays.
Henny Youngman1906–1998
- Atheism
- Holidays
In the faces of men and women I see God.
Walt Whitman1819–1892Song of Myself (1855), Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Song of Myself, 48In context
I never cared but for one thing, and that is simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day, doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.
Brigham Young1801–1877
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle384–322 BC
To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allenborn 1935Stardust Memories (1980).
- Atheism
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Often credited to Voltaire
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
Plato429–349 BCThe RepublicIn context
Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900In: The Very Best of Friedrich Nietzsche: Quotes from a Great Thinker, David Graham, 22 September 2014, p.4
- Anti-God
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige1906–1982New York Post (4 October 1959)
- Prayer
Dualism is a truncated metaphysic.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Theology
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
John Buchan1875–1940Often credited to Fulton J. Sheen
- Atheism