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In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. — Muhammad · 632To God belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth, and God encompasses everything. — Muhammad · 632Whatever good visits thee, it is of God; whatever evil visits thee is of thyself. — Muhammad · 632He is the First and the Last, the Outward and the Inward; He has knowledge of everything. — Muhammad · 632Praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being, the All-merciful, the All-compassionate, the Master of the Day of Doom. — Muhammad · 632God4 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 BCI am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. — God · 90I 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 · 96“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." — God · 681 BCApostle Paul3 quotes
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 · 62For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. — Apostle Paul · 56O 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 · 56Agathon2 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 BCBlaise Pascal2 quotes
God 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 the heart which perceives God and not the reason. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Carl Jung2 quotes
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. — Carl Jung · 1958I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. — Carl Jung · 1952Elihu2 quotes
Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. — Elihu · 500 BCFar be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. — Elihu · 500 BCFriedrich Nietzsche2 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 · 1882Isaac Newton2 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 · 1713Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. — Isaac Newton · 1702Mark Twain2 quotes
God 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 · 1910The book of nature tells us distinctly that God cares not a rap for us—nor for any living creature. — Mark Twain · 1898Martin Luther2 quotes
A mighty fortress is our God,
a bulwark never failing. — Martin Luther · 1529Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God. — Martin Luther · 1529Aeschylus1 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 BCAlexander Pope1 quote
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 · 1716Amiri Baraka1 quote
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. — Amiri Baraka · 1963Anton Chekhov1 quote
Between "God exists" and "There is no God" lies a whole enormous field which a true sage has great difficulty in crossing. But a Russian knows only one of these two extremes and the middle between them doesn't interest him, which is why he knows nothing or very little... A good man's indifference is as good as any religion. — Anton Chekhov · 1921Antonius Block1 quote
We must make an idol of our fear, and that idol we shall call god. — Antonius Block · 1957Archie Bunker1 quote
God don't make no mistakes, that's how he got to be God. — Archie Bunker · 1975Baruch Spinoza1 quote
God, or in other words, Nature. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Ben Jonson1 quote
Twas only fear first in the world made gods. — Ben Jonson · 1603Boris Grushenko1 quote
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 · 1975Doughboy1 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 · 1991Ed Tom Bell1 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 · 2007Fyodor Dostoevsky1 quote
But what will become of men then? I asked him, without God and immortal life? — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880Georges Duhamel1 quote
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. — Georges Duhamel · 1937Giordano Bruno1 quote
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 · 1584Henry Drummond1 quote
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 · 1894Henry Vaughan1 quote
There is in God, some say,
A deep but dazzling darkness. — Henry Vaughan · 1655Homer1 quote
All men have need of the Gods. — Homer · 700 BCJahaziel1 quote
The battle is not yours, but God's. — Jahaziel · 430 BCJames Jeans1 quote
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. — James Jeans · 1930