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God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Essays, Intellect.
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
- Theology
How can those who scorn God revere men?
Sun Tzu544–496 BCThe Art of War
It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation’s humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.
John Adams1735–1826
- Government
Don’t try to be a perfectionist. That’s God’s job.
JMJason Mechalek
When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
A man should believe in God through faith, not because of miracles.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Faith
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.
J. B. S. Haldane1892–1964A possibly apocryphal reply to theologians who inquired if there was anything that could be concluded about the Creator from the study of creation; as described in “Homage to Santa Rosalia, or why are there so many kinds of animals” by G. Evelyn Hutc
- Science
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth⁠—that God Governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Speech to the Constitutional Convention (28 June 1787)
Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
George W. Bushborn 1946Freedom at War With Fear (2001)
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
How else can you fight God but to pretend He doesn’t exist?
CBChris Bowyer
- Atheism
The atheist has no hope.
JCJ.F. Clarke1810–1888
- Atheism
God’s colors all are fast.
John Greenleaf Whittier1807–1892
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Christopher Morley1890–1957“Safe and Sane” in Hide and Seek (1920), p. 92
- Theology