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Nature of God64 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. — XenophanesThere is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893God 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 · 1846A mighty fortress is our God,
A bulwark never failing.
Our helper He amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing. — Martin Luther · 1529God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father. — Sigmund Freud · 1913All 64 quotes →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 →God and man11 quotes
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. — XenophanesAn honest God is the noblest work of man. — Robert G. Ingersoll · 1874The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. — Robert A. Heinlein · 1973Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God. — Martin Luther · 1529God made man, without man's consent, and made his nature, too; made it vicious instead of angelic, and then said, Be angelic, or I will punish you and destroy you. But no matter, God is responsible for everything man does, all the same; He can't get around that fact. There is only one Criminal, and it is not man. — Mark Twain · 1910If triangles were to make to themselves gods, they would give them three sides. — Montesquieu · 1721All 11 quotes →Existence of God4 quotes
An honest God is the noblest work of man. — Robert G. Ingersoll · 1874If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. — Boris Grushenko · 1975Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. — Julian Huxley · 1927I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent. — George Sand · 1896God and nature3 quotes
The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles. — J.B.S. Haldane · 1951God, 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's protection2 quotes
A mighty fortress is our God,
A bulwark never failing.
Our helper He amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing. — Martin Luther · 1529A mighty fortress is our God,
a bulwark never failing. — Martin Luther · 1529Human nature2 quotes
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature—opposition to it, is [in?] his love of justice. — Abraham Lincoln · 1854Unlike divine nature, human nature lacks sound judgments. — HeraclitusAnimism1 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. — XenophanesAtheism1 quote
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. — David Foster Wallace · 2005Beauty of nature1 quote
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893Ephemeral nature of life1 quote
We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree,
To wither and perish- but nought changeth Thee. — Walter Chalmers Smith · 1867Fear1 quote
We must make an idol of our fear, and that idol we shall call god. — Antonius Block · 1957Flowers1 quote
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893God and time1 quote
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. — God · 96God of the gaps1 quote
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. — Julian Huxley · 1927God's love1 quote
God is love. — 1st John 4:8 · 95God's omniscience1 quote
He is the First and the Last, the Outward and the Inward; He has knowledge of everything. — Muhammad · 632God's power1 quote
Don't be afraid, my son. No one is more powerful than God. — Priest · 1993God's wisdom1 quote
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! — Apostle Paul · 56God's wrath1 quote
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 BCGoodness of God1 quote
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 · 1865Incomprehensibility of God1 quote
Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. — Elihu · 500 BCJudgment1 quote
Unlike divine nature, human nature lacks sound judgments. — HeraclitusJustice1 quote
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature—opposition to it, is [in?] his love of justice. — Abraham Lincoln · 1854Monotheism1 quote
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. — Moses · 1405 BCOppression of women1 quote
If God is male, then the male is God. — Mary Daly · 1973Pantheism1 quote
God, or in other words, Nature. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Patriarchy1 quote
If God is male, then the male is God. — Mary Daly · 1973Religion1 quote
The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. — Robert A. Heinlein · 1973