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90 quotes

The Gay Science · 1882

★ 9.8

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 BC

★ 8.4

Poem · Epic poem

All men have need of the Gods.

Homer

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 8.3

Philosophical literature

For the one thing even God cannot do is change the past.

Agathon

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

★ 8.2

Religious literature

Therefore 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

1265

★ 7.8

Philosophical literature

"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

The Gay Science · 1882

★ 7.6

Letter

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Voltaire

1768

★ 7.1

Philosophical literature

This only is denied even to God, The power to make what has been done undone.

Agathon

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics · 350 BC

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

For I am the Lord, I change not.

Malachi 3:6

424 BC

★ 7.0

Epigram · Philosophical literature

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

Pensees · 1662

★ 7.0

Poem

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are.

Ovid

★ 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.

Xenophanes

★ 6.9

Philosophical literature · Political literature

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

The System of Economic Contradictions · 1846

★ 6.0

Novel

But what will become of men then? I asked him, without God and immortal life?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov · 1880

★ 5.6

Sociology

God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father.

Sigmund Freud

Totem and Taboo · 1913

★ 5.5

Scripture · Religious literature

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

Acts 17:22-23 · 62

★ 5.4

Poem

There is in God, some say, A deep but dazzling darkness.

Henry Vaughan

Silex Scintillans · 1655

★ 5.3

Essay · Philosophical writing

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

Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy · 1865

★ 5.3

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Robert G. Ingersoll

1874

★ 5.3

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

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

Love and Death · 1975

★ 5.2

Scripture · Religious literature

God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

1st John 1:5

★ 4.7

Scripture · Religious literature

Naked 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

Job 1:21 · 500 BC

★ 4.6

Scripture · Religious literature

Be still, and know that I am God.

Psalm 46:10

450 BC

★ 4.5

Scripture · Religious literature

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

Exodus 20:5 · 1405 BC

★ 4.5

Scripture · Religious literature

Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire: but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

1st Kings 19:11-12

538 BC

★ 4.5

Scripture · Religious literature

God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM".

Exodus 3:14

1405 BC

★ 4.5

Hymn · Song · Religious literature

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing.

Martin Luther

A Mighty Fortress is Our God · 1529

★ 4.0

Religious literature

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

Martin Luther

1529

★ 4.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

Elihu

Job 37:5 · 500 BC

★ 3.9

Scripture · Religious literature

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

God

Revelation 22:13 · 90

★ 3.9

Scripture · Religious literature

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

Muhammad

The Quran, The Koran, 1:1 · 632

★ 3.9

Scientific literature

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

Principia · 1713

★ 3.9

Scripture · Religious literature

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Moses

Deuteronomy 6:4 · 1405 BC

★ 3.8

Scripture · Religious literature

Canst thou by searching find out God?

Zophar

Job 11:7 · 500 BC

★ 3.8

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?

Aeschylus

Agamemnon · 458 BC

★ 3.8

Scripture · Religious literature

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Psalm 30:5

450 BC

★ 3.8

Religious literature

God is a sea of infinite substance.

St. John of Damascus

749

★ 3.8

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

Saint Anselm

1078

★ 3.8

Treatise · Philosophical literature

God, or in other words, Nature.

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics · 1677

★ 3.8

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Isaac Newton

1702

★ 3.8

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