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In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Douglas Adams1952–2001
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
Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
John Adams1735–1826Letter to John Quincy Adams (16 June 1816)
- Atheism
- Government
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
John Adams1735–1826On the White House, in a letter to Abigail Adams (2 November 1800)
- Prayer
- Presidency
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 185 (2 October 1711).
- Atheism
If there’s a power above us,
(And that there is all nature cries aloud
Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
- Virtue
Eugene has to stop doing God’s job. God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977Purple Hibiscus (2003)
- Religion
The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 2 : Religion
- Theology
The divine in man is our sole ground for believing that there is anything divine in the universe outside of man.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913)
- Faith
I saw within Its depth how It conceives
all things in a single volume bound by Love,
of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso, Canto XXXIII, lines 85–87 (tr. Ciardi)
- Love
The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321The Divine Comedy (c. 1320), Paradiso, Canto XXXIIIIn context
- Love
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
Woody Allenborn 1935Getting Even (1971)
To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allenborn 1935Stardust Memories (1980).
- Atheism
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Woody Allenborn 1935Without Feathers (1975)
- Comedy
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony1820–1906Speech at the NAWSA convention (1896) against a resolution disavowing Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible; in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. IV (1902)
- Religion