Sourced and curated.

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

"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

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

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

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

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

1st John 1:5

★ 4.7

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

Be still, and know that I am God.

Psalm 46:10

450 BC

★ 4.5

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.

Exodus 20:5 · 1405 BC

★ 4.5

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

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

Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

Elihu

Job 37:5 · 500 BC

★ 3.9

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

Revelation 22:13 · 90

★ 3.9

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

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

Moses

Deuteronomy 6:4 · 1405 BC

★ 3.8

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

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

Film · Fantasy drama (film) · Drama (film) · Fantasy drama · Drama

We must make an idol of our fear, and that idol we shall call god.

Antonius Block

The Seventh Seal · 1957

★ 3.8

Song · Rock music

She moves in mysterious ways.

Mysterious Ways · 1991

★ 3.8

Film · Coming of age (film) · Drama (film) · Coming of age · Drama

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

Boyz n the Hood · 1991

★ 3.8

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

931 BC

★ 3.7

I am all-powerful Time which destroys all things, and I have come here to slay these men. Even if thou dost not fight, all the warriors facing thee shall die.

Krishna

Bhagavad Gita · 200 BC

★ 3.7

For 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

Romans 1:20 · 56

★ 3.7

Play · Tragedy (play)

Twas only fear first in the world made gods.

Ben Jonson

1603

★ 3.7

I could not possibly exist with the nature I actually have, that is, one endowed with the idea of God, unless there really is a God; the very God, I mean, of whom I have an idea.

Rene Descartes

Meditations on First Philosophy · 1641

★ 3.7

Film · Biography (film) · Drama (film) · Biography · Drama

God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth.

Margaret More

A Man for All Seasons (film) · 1966

★ 3.7

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

God don't make no mistakes, that's how he got to be God.

Archie Bunker

All in the Family · 1975

★ 3.7

God is love.

1st John 4:8

★ 3.6

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

1584

★ 3.6

Short story

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

1910

★ 3.6

Psychological literature

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

Carl Jung

1958

★ 3.6

Essay · Political literature

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Amiri Baraka

1963

★ 3.6

Poem · Historical literature

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

Pharsalia · 65

★ 3.5

Letter

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

1716

★ 3.5

Hymn · Song

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.

William Cowper

Light Shining out of Darkness · 1779

★ 3.5

Film · Drama (film) · Epic (film) · Drama · Epic

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

The Last Temptation of Christ · 1988

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

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

1894

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Julian Huxley

1927

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

James Jeans

1930

★ 3.5

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

1937

★ 3.5

Play

God is on everyone's side…and, in the last analysis, he is on the side of those with plenty of money and large armies.

Jean Anouilh

1952

★ 3.5

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 27:1

450 BC

★ 2.9

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 1:8 · 96

★ 2.9

The battle is not yours, but God's.

Jahaziel

2nd Chronicles 20:15 · 430 BC

★ 2.8

Epigram · Philosophical literature

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

Blaise Pascal

Pensees · 1662

★ 2.2

Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Elihu

Job 34:10 · 500 BC

★ 2.1

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Psalm 90:2

450 BC

★ 2.1

O 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

Romans 11:33 · 56

★ 2.1

To God belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth, and God encompasses everything.

Muhammad

The Quran, The Koran, 4:126 · 632

★ 2.1

Novel · Epistolary novel

If triangles were to make to themselves gods, they would give them three sides.

Montesquieu

Persian Letters · 1721

★ 2.1

Personal journal

The book of nature tells us distinctly that God cares not a rap for us—nor for any living creature.

Mark Twain

1898

★ 2.1

“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."

Isaiah 55:8-9 · 681 BC

★ 2.0

God dwells in the heart of all beings, Arjuna: thy God dwells in thy heart. And his power of wonder moves all things-puppets in a play of shadows-whirling them onwards on the stream of time.

Bhagavad Gita

200 BC

★ 2.0

Film · Comedy (film) · Fantasy (film) · Comedy · Fantasy

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

Groundhog Day · 1993

★ 2.0