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Religious literature40 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 BCTherefore 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 · 1265For I am the Lord, I change not. — Malachi 3:6 · 424 BCMen 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 · 62God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. — 1st John 1:5 · 90Naked 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 BCAll 40 quotes →Philosophical literature12 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 · 1882For the one thing even God cannot do is change the past. — Agathon"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 · 1882This only is denied even to God,
The power to make what has been done undone. — Agathon · 350 BCGod 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 · 1662If 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. — XenophanesAll 12 quotes →Drama4 quotes
If God was a bitch, there wouldn't be no nuclear bombs, no wars, no shit like that, cause that ain't in a bitch's nature. — Doughboy · 1991We must make an idol of our fear, and that idol we shall call god. — Antonius Block · 1957God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth. — Margaret More · 1966You think God belongs only to you? He doesn't. God is an immortal spirit who belongs to everybody, to the whole world. You think you're special? God is not an Israelite! — Jesus · 1988Drama (film)4 quotes
If God was a bitch, there wouldn't be no nuclear bombs, no wars, no shit like that, cause that ain't in a bitch's nature. — Doughboy · 1991We must make an idol of our fear, and that idol we shall call god. — Antonius Block · 1957God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth. — Margaret More · 1966You think God belongs only to you? He doesn't. God is an immortal spirit who belongs to everybody, to the whole world. You think you're special? God is not an Israelite! — Jesus · 1988Comedy3 quotes
If 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 · 1975God don't make no mistakes, that's how he got to be God. — Archie Bunker · 1975Well maybe the real God uses tricks, you know? Maybe he's not omnipotent. He's just been around so long he knows everything. — Phil · 1993Scientific literature3 quotes
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 · 1713There 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 · 1894From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. — James Jeans · 1930Comedy (film)2 quotes
If 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 · 1975Well maybe the real God uses tricks, you know? Maybe he's not omnipotent. He's just been around so long he knows everything. — Phil · 1993Political literature2 quotes
God 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 has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. — Amiri Baraka · 1963Tragedy (play)2 quotes
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? — Aeschylus · 458 BCTwas only fear first in the world made gods. — Ben Jonson · 1603Biography1 quote
God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth. — Margaret More · 1966Biography (film)1 quote
God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth. — Margaret More · 1966Comedy (TV)1 quote
God don't make no mistakes, that's how he got to be God. — Archie Bunker · 1975Coming of age1 quote
If God was a bitch, there wouldn't be no nuclear bombs, no wars, no shit like that, cause that ain't in a bitch's nature. — Doughboy · 1991Coming of age (film)1 quote
If God was a bitch, there wouldn't be no nuclear bombs, no wars, no shit like that, cause that ain't in a bitch's nature. — Doughboy · 1991Crime thriller1 quote
I always figured when I got older, God would sorta come into my life somehow and he didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I would have the same opinion of me that he does. — Ed Tom Bell · 2007Crime thriller (film)1 quote
I always figured when I got older, God would sorta come into my life somehow and he didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I would have the same opinion of me that he does. — Ed Tom Bell · 2007Epic1 quote
You think God belongs only to you? He doesn't. God is an immortal spirit who belongs to everybody, to the whole world. You think you're special? God is not an Israelite! — Jesus · 1988Epic (film)1 quote
You think God belongs only to you? He doesn't. God is an immortal spirit who belongs to everybody, to the whole world. You think you're special? God is not an Israelite! — Jesus · 1988Epic poem1 quote
All men have need of the Gods. — Homer · 700 BCEpistolary novel1 quote
If triangles were to make to themselves gods, they would give them three sides. — Montesquieu · 1721Fantasy1 quote
Well maybe the real God uses tricks, you know? Maybe he's not omnipotent. He's just been around so long he knows everything. — Phil · 1993Fantasy (film)1 quote
Well maybe the real God uses tricks, you know? Maybe he's not omnipotent. He's just been around so long he knows everything. — Phil · 1993Fantasy drama1 quote
We must make an idol of our fear, and that idol we shall call god. — Antonius Block · 1957Fantasy drama (film)1 quote
We must make an idol of our fear, and that idol we shall call god. — Antonius Block · 1957Greek tragedy1 quote
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? — Aeschylus · 458 BCHistorical literature1 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 · 65Modernist literature1 quote
Let us pray to God... The bastard! He doesn't exist! — Samuel Beckett · 1957Philosophical writing1 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 · 1865Psychological literature1 quote
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. — Carl Jung · 1958Rock music1 quote
She moves in mysterious ways. — U2 · 1991