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1. "God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman. "

Victor Hugo

categories: Woman and Man


2. "God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Conduct of Life"

categories: God and Religion


3. "God created Adam and Eve - not Adam and Steve."

Anon.

categories: Human -:- Manners and Ethics -:- Various


4. "God creates out of nothing. [...] but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard, "The Journals of Soren Kierkegaard: A Selection"

categories: God and Religion -:- Sin and Conscience


5. "God does not play dice with the universe."

Albert Einstein

categories: God and Religion


6. "God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

categories: God and Religion -:- Success and Fame


7. "God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."

John Donne, "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions"

categories: God and Religion


8. "God gave us memories, that we might have June roses in the December of our lives."

James M. Barrie

categories: Memory


9. "God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."

James M. Barrie

categories: Memory



10. "God gave us time so that everything wouldn't happen all at once."

Anon.

categories: God and Religion -:- Time and Passing


11. "God give me work, till my life shall end.
And life, till my work is done."

Winifred Holtby`s epitaph

categories: Inscriptions etc. -:- Life and Death -:- Work and Laziness


12. "God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering."

St. Augustine of Hippo

categories: Pain and Tears


13. "God has commanded Time to console the unhappy."

Joseph Joubert

categories: Pain and Tears -:- Time and Passing


14. "God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother."

Giuseppe Mazzini

categories: Human -:- Patriotism


15. "God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fee."

Benjamin Franklin

categories: Health and Alcohol


16. "God helps those who cannot help themselves."

Charles Spurgeon

categories: God and Religion


17. "God invented chocolate, the devil added the calories."

Anon.

categories: Various


18. "God invented dogs to give cats something to laugh at!"

Anon.

categories: Nature and Animals


19. "God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

categories: God and Religion


20. "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

categories: God and Religion



21. "God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend."

Charles Spurgeon

categories: Forgiveness -:- God and Religion


22. "God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the Light."

Abraham Joshua Heschel

categories: God and Religion


23. "God is not dead but alive and working on a much less ambitious project."

graffito

categories: God and Religion -:- Inscriptions etc.


24. "God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Voltaire's Notebooks"

categories: Peace and War -:- Power and Weakness


25. "God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things."

Pablo Picasso

categories: Art and Culture -:- God and Religion


26. "God is the infinite ALL. Man is only a finite manifestation of Him."

Lev Tolstoy

categories: God and Religion -:- Human


27. "God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist."

Charles Baudelaire

categories: God and Religion


28. "God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."

Alfred Jarry, "Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, ..."

categories: God and Religion


29. "God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

St. Augustine of Hippo

categories: God and Religion


30. "God loves us not because of who we are, but because of who He is."

Anon.

categories: God and Religion


31. "God loves you right where you are but he doesn't want to leave you there."

Max Lucado

categories: God and Religion -:- Sin and Conscience



32. "God made integers, all else is the work of man."

Leopold Kronecker

categories: Science and Technology


33. "God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done."

Anon.

categories: Various


34. "God made the country, and man made the town."

William Cowper

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Various


35. "God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art."

Victor Hugo

categories: Art and Culture -:- God and Religion -:- Nature and Animals


36. "God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back."

Gloria Steinem, "Moving Beyond Words"

categories: God and Religion -:- Question and Problem


37. "God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails."

St. Augustine of Hippo

categories: Work and Laziness


38. "God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk."

Arabic proverb

categories: God and Religion -:- Work and Laziness -:- Knowledge, Ignorance


39. "God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."

Paul Dirac

categories: God and Religion -:- Nature and Animals -:- Science and Technology


40. "God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."

Martin Buber

categories: God and Religion -:- Human


41. "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

Clive Staples Lewis, "The Problem of Pain"

categories: Pain and Tears


42. "God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars."

Elbert Green Hubbard

categories: God and Religion



43. "God [...] created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution."

Graham Greene

categories: God and Religion -:- Various


44. "God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves."

Simone Weil, "Love"

categories: God and Religion -:- Love


45. "God's pay is not great, but his retirement plan is out of this world."

Anon.

categories: God and Religion -:- Life and Death


46. "God, that checkroom of our dreams."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- God and Religion


47. "Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the kitchen makes you a cook."

Anon.

categories: God and Religion


48. "Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship."

Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"

categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Love -:- Richness and Money


49. "Golf isn't a sport. It's landscaping with the wrong tools."

Anon.

categories: Various


50. "Good advice is an insult that should be forgiven."

Anon.

categories: Forgiveness

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