God Quotes - Page 31

• Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the "Old One." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Voice, Secret

  Quoted in Ronald W. Clark's Einstein: The Life and Times (p. 340)

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• Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?

  Sylvia Plath

  Remedy

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Winter Trees”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Men, Mind

  George Santayana (1954). “The Life of Reason ; Or, The Phases of Human Progress. One-volume Ed”

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• Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Funny, Humorous, Giving

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.354

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• In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

  Timothy Keller

  Meaningful, Pain, Views

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.26, Penguin

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• I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious.
  Told to Valentine Bargmann.

  Albert Einstein

  Valentine, Second Thoughts, Malicious

  Quoted in Jamie Sayen, Einstein in America (1985).

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• God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

  Robert Browning

  Perfect, Poet, Creation

  'Paracelsus' (1835) pt. 2, l. 648

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• If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Three, Triangles, Sides

  'Lettres Persanes' (1721) no. 59

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• One on God's side is a majority.

  Wendell Phillips

  Majority, Sides

  Speech on John Brown, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1 Nov. 1859 See Coolidge 2; Douglass 7; Andrew Jackson 7; John Knox 1; Thoreau 9

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• Man proposes, God disposes.

  Plautus

  Men, Propose

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• The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheist, Ideas

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• God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Able, Enjoy, Creator

  "The Power of Myth".

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• Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

  Mark Twain

  Fashion, Leaving, Black

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.95, Xist Publishing

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• What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Character, Catholic

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

  Mark Twain

  Romance, Sacred, Hyde

  Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). “Mark Twain's notebook”, Scholarly Pr

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• God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.

  Matthew Arnold

  School, Church, Saint

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• I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Important, Care, Feels

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• When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Fire, Broken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.65, Penguin

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• The heart of God loves a persevering worshipper who, though overwhelmed by many troubles, is overwhelmed even more by the beauty of God.

  Matt Redman

  Love, Beauty, Christian

  FaceBook post by Matt Redman from Oct 28, 2013

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• God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Atheism, Disease, Imagine

  "The Trouble with Being Born". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1973.

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• Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult.

  Thomas Reid

  Children, Adults, Littles

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• It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.33, Broadway Books

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• The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

  Jim Hightower

  Men, Should Have, Damage

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• I believe God's keeping the records and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life; somehow, some way God will make it up to you.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Up To You, Records

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• When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Hope, Encouragement

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