I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. (Le desert de Bievres)
Georges DuhamelOur party has in past times known great, great days, but we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.
Francis MaudeGod is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
Imelda MarcosThe camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
John BergerMan can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
Alfred North WhiteheadWhom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising (Enemies of Promise)
Cyril ConnollyI googled myself this morning and got 7,333,600 matches!
Everything from me being a god to the antichrist. Hey, maybe I am the antichrist.
David HasselhoffThe condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance...
John Philpot CurranThe gods too are fond of a joke.
AristotleGod cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.
Samuel ButlerIt was God who made me so beautiful
Linda EvangelistaGod has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
Imamu Amiri BarakaIt is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh BillingsHomer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceiving on one another.
XenophanesYou said you'd do your best with God on your side? I think he took the day off.
American IdolTwa gods guides me; the ane of them is blin',
Yea and a bairn brocht up in vanitie;
The next a wife ingenrit of the sea,
And lichter nor a dauphin with her fin. [Sonnet]
Mark Alexander BoydIt is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EpicurusMan is to man a god or a wolf
Gerard Didier ErasmusO God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!
Thomas HoodGod and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.
Friedrich KlopstockWhen God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
Truman CapoteThe Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy GrahamOne of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm MuggeridgeTo surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac AsimovAll the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your faith and your hope accompany me.
Pope Benedict XVII feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.
Jim BakkerIf absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God? [Paraphrasing Lord Acton, presumably]
George DeaconWhatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
John Stuart MillAnd like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.
Douglas MacarthurThe media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cosy up to power: We're supposed to be the check and balance on government [God help us all then!]
Amy GoodmanEvery person is a God in embryo. Its' only desire is to be born.
Deepak ChopraOh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God? [Under Milk Wood]
Dylan ThomasSomebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved.
Mother TeresaIf some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
AristotleThe Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Igor StravinskyImagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry MillerEach of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
Frederic BastiatYou stop thinking about the police finding out what you did. You start thinking about God knowing what just happened.
Curtis JacksonGod was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Samuel ButlerI would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Albert CamusGod had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
Donna SummerIf you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
Lee TrevinoWhom the mad would destroy, they first make gods. (Of Mao Tse-tung in 1967)
Bernard LevinWoe is me, I think I am becoming a god (When fatally ill)
VespasianGod exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
Marianne WilliamsonYou will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate
Pope John Paul III do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo GalileiAchilles' cursed anger sing, O goddess, that son of Peleus, which started a myriad sufferings for the Achaeans. (The Iliad)
HomerPeople will frighten you about a graduation...They use words you don't hear often... "And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
Bill CosbyGod warms his hands at man's heart when he prays
John Masefield
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