Quotes · Skopia

72 quotes

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Topic·God and man✕clear

Poem · Epic poem

All men have need of the Gods.

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 8.3

Poem · Epic poem

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

The Iliad · 700 BC

★ 8.2

Autobiography and memoir · Religious literature

Our heart is restless until it rests in you.

Confessions · 400

★ 7.8

Scripture · Religious literature

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

Proverbs 3:5-6

686 BC

★ 7.1

Personal journal

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Soren Kierkegaard

1838

★ 7.0

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

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.

★ 6.9

Sermon · Religious literature

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

Jonathan Edwards

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God · 1741

★ 5.3

So, loath to suffer mute, We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear.

Empedocles on Etna · 1852

★ 5.3

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Robert G. Ingersoll

1874

★ 5.3

The only freedom the gods grant us Is this: to submit Of our own free will to their sovereignty We should do just that, Since only in the illusion of freedom Does freedom exist.

Fernando Pessoa

1914

★ 5.0

Scripture · Religious literature

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Acts 17:28 · 62

★ 4.6

Film · Musical comedy (film) · Musical (film) · Musical comedy · Musical

We're on a mission from God.

The Blues Brothers · 1980

★ 4.5

Novel · Science fiction

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

Time Enough for Love · 1973

★ 4.2

Poem · Epic poem

The Olympian is a difficult foe to oppose.

The Iliad · 700 BC

★ 4.1

Religious literature

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

1529

★ 4.0

Scripture · Religious literature

The Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.

1st Chronicles 28:9 · 430 BC

★ 3.9

Religious literature

He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother.

251

★ 3.9

Religious literature

They consider the deed but God weighs the motive.

Thomas a Kempis

The Imitation of Christ · 1418

★ 3.9

We cannot all be friars, and many are the ways by which God leads his own to eternal life. Knight-errantry is religion.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1615

★ 3.9

Play · Greek tragedy · Tragedy (play)

Zeus, 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?

Agamemnon · 458 BC

★ 3.8

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