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Muhammad2 quotes
To God belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth, and God encompasses everything. — Muhammad · 632He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term. — Muhammad · 632Alexander Pope1 quote
All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul. — Alexander Pope · 1733Baruch Spinoza1 quote
God, or in other words, Nature. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Increase Mather1 quote
Thunder is the voice of God, and, therefore, to be dreaded. — Increase Mather · 1684Isaac Newton1 quote
Whence is it that Nature does nothing in vain: and whence arises all that Order and Beauty which we see in the World?... does it not appear from Phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly. — Isaac Newton · 1704J.B.S. Haldane1 quote
The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles. — J.B.S. Haldane · 1951Thornton Wilder1 quote
Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God. — Thornton Wilder · 1927William Blake1 quote
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
The last of the goat is the bounty of God.
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God. — William Blake · 1794