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God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil:
For thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. — Psalm 23:1-6 · 450 BCAll men have need of the Gods. — Homer · 700 BCFor the one thing even God cannot do is change the past. — AgathonTherefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265"Where is God gone?" he called out. "I mean to tell you! We have killed him,—you and I! We are all his murderers!" — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882All 90 quotes →Nature of God44 quotes
For I am the Lord, I change not. — Malachi 3:6 · 424 BCIf cows and horses or lions had hands, or could draw with their hands and make things as men can, horses would have drawn horse-like gods, cows cow-like gods, and each species would have made the gods' bodies just like their own. — XenophanesGod is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood. God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. For as long as men bow before altars, mankind will remain damned, the slaves of kings and priests. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · 1846God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father. — Sigmund Freud · 1913There is in God, some say,
A deep but dazzling darkness. — Henry Vaughan · 1655I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go. — John Stuart Mill · 1865All 44 quotes →Existence of God15 quotes
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882"Where is God gone?" he called out. "I mean to tell you! We have killed him,—you and I! We are all his murderers!" — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. — Voltaire · 1768God is, or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separates us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?... If you win, you win everything; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. — Blaise Pascal · 1662It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are. — Ovid · 2But what will become of men then? I asked him, without God and immortal life? — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880All 15 quotes →God and man13 quotes
All men have need of the Gods. — Homer · 700 BCIf cows and horses or lions had hands, or could draw with their hands and make things as men can, horses would have drawn horse-like gods, cows cow-like gods, and each species would have made the gods' bodies just like their own. — XenophanesAn honest God is the noblest work of man. — Robert G. Ingersoll · 1874Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God. — Martin Luther · 1529Zeus, author of all, worker of all! For what is brought to pass for mortal men save by will of Zeus? What herein is not wrought of god? — Aeschylus · 458 BCTwas only fear first in the world made gods. — Ben Jonson · 1603All 13 quotes →Decline of religion5 quotes
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882"Where is God gone?" he called out. "I mean to tell you! We have killed him,—you and I! We are all his murderers!" — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882But what will become of men then? I asked him, without God and immortal life? — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. — Amiri Baraka · 1963You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. — Carl Jung · 1958God's protection4 quotes
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil:
For thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. — Psalm 23:1-6 · 450 BCA mighty fortress is our God,
a bulwark never failing. — Martin Luther · 1529The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? — Psalm 27:1 · 450 BCGod is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. — Psalm 46:1 · 450 BCOrigin of the universe4 quotes
Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being... This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler. — Isaac Newton · 1713Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. — Isaac Newton · 1702From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. — James Jeans · 1930Death of God3 quotes
"Where is God gone?" he called out. "I mean to tell you! We have killed him,—you and I! We are all his murderers!" — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882But what will become of men then? I asked him, without God and immortal life? — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. — Amiri Baraka · 1963Human nature3 quotes
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882All men have need of the Gods. — Homer · 700 BCYou can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. — Carl Jung · 1958Incomprehensibility of God3 quotes
Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. — Elihu · 500 BCCanst thou by searching find out God? — Zophar · 500 BCGod moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm. — William Cowper · 1779Science and religion3 quotes
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. — Isaac Newton · 1702There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search for gaps-gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps? — Henry Drummond · 1894Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. — Julian Huxley · 1927Atheism2 quotes
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882Let us pray to God... The bastard! He doesn't exist! — Samuel Beckett · 1957Changing the past2 quotes
For the one thing even God cannot do is change the past. — AgathonThis only is denied even to God,
The power to make what has been done undone. — Agathon · 350 BCCreation2 quotes
Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being... This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler. — Isaac Newton · 1713God and nature2 quotes
God, or in other words, Nature. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677To God belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth, and God encompasses everything. — Muhammad · 632God is in control2 quotes
Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. — Job · 500 BCThe battle is not yours, but God's. — Jahaziel · 430 BCGod of the gaps2 quotes
There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search for gaps-gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps? — Henry Drummond · 1894Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. — Julian Huxley · 1927God taking sides2 quotes
I am all-powerful Time which destroys all things, and I have come here to slay these men. Even if thou dost not fight, all the warriors facing thee shall die. — Krishna · 200 BCGod is on everyone's side…and, in the last analysis, he is on the side of those with plenty of money and large armies. — Jean Anouilh · 1952God's power2 quotes
For the one thing even God cannot do is change the past. — AgathonThis only is denied even to God,
The power to make what has been done undone. — Agathon · 350 BCGod's wrath2 quotes
I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. — God · 1405 BCFor his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. — Psalm 30:5 · 450 BCGoodness of God2 quotes
I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go. — John Stuart Mill · 1865Whatever good visits thee, it is of God; whatever evil visits thee is of thyself. — Muhammad · 632Pantheism2 quotes
God, or in other words, Nature. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677God dwells in the heart of all beings, Arjuna: thy God dwells in thy heart. And his power of wonder moves all things-puppets in a play of shadows-whirling them onwards on the stream of time. — Bhagavad Gita · 200 BCProblem of evil2 quotes
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. — Georges Duhamel · 1937The book of nature tells us distinctly that God cares not a rap for us—nor for any living creature. — Mark Twain · 1898Religion2 quotes
I think it was a generous thought, and one that flowed from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world. — Alexander Pope · 1716There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search for gaps-gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps? — Henry Drummond · 1894The past2 quotes
For the one thing even God cannot do is change the past. — AgathonThis only is denied even to God,
The power to make what has been done undone. — Agathon · 350 BCThe universe2 quotes
He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns, not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds. — Giordano Bruno · 1584From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. — James Jeans · 1930Animism1 quote
Is the dwelling place of God anywhere but in the earth and sea, the air and sky, and virtue? Why seek we further for deities? Whatever you see, whatever you touch, that is Jupiter. — Lucan · 65Anthropomorphism1 quote
If cows and horses or lions had hands, or could draw with their hands and make things as men can, horses would have drawn horse-like gods, cows cow-like gods, and each species would have made the gods' bodies just like their own. — XenophanesAthens and Jerusalem1 quote
Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; or as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you. — Apostle Paul · 62Creation of the world1 quote
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being... This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler. — Isaac Newton · 1713