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“Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.” Woody Allen, “Getting Even” - 1971

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Invisible Monsters” - 1999

“And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits, You cannot but forbear to murder me:” William Shakespeare, “Henry VI, Part 2” - 1623

“What a piece of work is man!” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“Believe that God loves you as you cannot conceive; that He loves you with your sin, in your sin.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.” Frederick Douglass, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” - 1845

“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” Thomas Jefferson, “A Summary View of the Rights of British America” - 1774

“God is always the last resource.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the gods, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“I am at peace with God, my conflict is with man.” Charlie Chaplin, “My Autobiography” - 1964

“You women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“The theologian considers sin chiefly as an offense against God; and the moral philosopher, as something contrary to reason.” Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologica” - 1274

“For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.” Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologica” - 1274

“I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity.” Søren Kierkegaard, “Fear and Trembling” - 1843

“God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.” William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice” - 1600

“Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.” William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline” - 1623

“A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!” William Shakespeare, “Love's Labour's Lost” - 1598

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.” William Shakespeare, “Henry VIII” - 1623

“I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“Well, let them practise and converse with spirits: God is our fortress, in whose conquering name let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.” William Shakespeare, “Henry VI, Part 1” - 1623

“My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God...” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not.” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it...” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans, all have different names, but they all contain water.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“The pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends by finding God there.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“This was the alpenglow, to me one of the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed and waiting like devout...” John Muir, “The Mountains of California” - 1894

“If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“God gave the day, God gave the strength. And the day and the strength were consecrated to labor, and that labor was its own reward.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“No man could demand from him an account of his actions; God, if he believed in one—his conscience, if he had one—were the sole judges to whom he was answerable.” Jules Verne, “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” - 1870

“There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign, and believe there, by the grace of God alone!” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“No wonder that God in His special grace subjects the ministers of the Gospel to all kinds of afflictions, otherwise they could not cope with this ugly beast called vainglory.” Martin Luther, “Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians” - 1535

“If we do not love God and His Word what difference does it make if we love anything at all?” Martin Luther, “Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians” - 1535

“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

“The true God has never yet smiled upon a person for his charity or virtues, but only for the sake of Christ's merits.” Martin Luther, “Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians” - 1535

“The best commendation of any work is to know that one has done the work that God has given him well and that God is pleased with his effort.” Martin Luther, “Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians” - 1535

“Paul makes it clear enough that it takes more than an Abrahamic pedigree to be a child of God. To be a child of God requires faith in Christ.” Martin Luther, “Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians” - 1535

“I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.” Samuel Butler, “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” - 1912

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