God Quotes

Yes, and Duchamp too, when he was asked what he thought about God, said, 'Let's not talk about that. That's man's stupidest idea.' — Nikša Gligo (1972)

~ Richard Kostelanetz

. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of blood . . . Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under divers names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty. We find, in all the religions, 'a God of armies,' a 'jealous God,' an 'avenging God,' a 'destroying God,' a 'God,' who is pleased with carnage, and whom his worshippers consider it a duty to serve. Lambs, bulls, children, men, and women, are sacrificed to him. Zealous servants of this barbarous God think themselves obliged even to offer up themselves as a sacrifice to him. Madmen may everywhere be seen, who, after meditating upon their terrible God, imagine that to please him they must inflict on themselves, the most exquisite torments. The gloomy ideas formed of the deity, far from consoling them, have every where disquieted their minds, and prejudiced follies destructive to happiness.

~ Paul Henri Thiry D'holbach

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.

~ Diego Rivera

To believe that there is no God takes infinitely more faith than to believe God exists, because all the evidence must be ignored. Atheism is the epitome of blind faith.

~ David Servant

I did so many bad things to your god, if he or she exists, would have been pregnant now.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

~ Ray Comfort

Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods.

~ Terry Pratchett

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

~ Mark Twain

A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question -- not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.

~ C.j. Sansom

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

~ Alan S. Kesselheim

Anyone I love takes away part of my freedom, but in that case it is I who wished it; and there is so much pleasure in loving that one gladly sacrifices something for its sake. Any one who loves me takes away all my freedom. Anyone who admires me (as a writer) threatens to take it away from me. I even fear those who understand me, which is why I spend so much time covering my tracks - both in my private life and in the persona I express through my books. What would have delighted me, had I loved god, is the thought that god gives nothing in return.

~ Henry De Montherlant

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

~ Peter L. Berger

Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God.

~ Lionel Suggs

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

~ Tom Stoppard

Every morning I wake up and thank God that I don't believe in him.

~ Mike Malloy

You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.

~ Trevor Treharne

Billions of years ago God was creating universes and life; thousands of years ago he was creating angry floods, sin-saving human sacrifices and audible burning bushes. Today he occasionally appears on a piece of toast. To state that God has become reclusive over the years would be an overwhelming understatement.

~ Trevor Treharne

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, materialism would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a particular and limited way of looking at it.

~ Melanie Phillips

In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in state of categorical unbelief. He says, I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean. I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views--I just didn't think about religion.

~ Will Schwalbe

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

~ W. Somerset Maugham

No man will say, There is no God 'till he is so hardened in sin that it hasbecome his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

~ Matthew Henry

Have you ever wondered why there are so many Gods and so many religions? It is because in the Land of the Gods, there is not a single hand to guide the Gods on a proper path.

~ Lionel Suggs

God must have a weird sense of values, and if there’s a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He’s going to have a lot to answer for.

~ Philip Appleman

God endlessly fails to extend his blessings. That is because he no longer sits on the throne.

~ Lionel Suggs

Is apathy not the nature of God?

~ Lionel Suggs

The reason why God doesn't show his face is because he stands behind a wall that can be broken.

~ Lionel Suggs

This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

~ Philip Appleman

People thank God when God no longer sits on the throne. The angels descend down to deliver miracles because they are trying to maintain the face of God. In the end, you must place your hopes and prayers with the angels. It has become quite sad in Heaven without its puppet master.

~ Lionel Suggs

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

~ Rosamund Lupton

When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise.

~ Kris Vallotton

Worry denies the power of God and produces no good results. Worry adds no value to your life. Eliminate it with God’s help.

~ Elizabeth George

God cannot be indicted with injustice because someone rejected a gift they weren't entitled to in the first place.

~ Evan Minton

The justice and truth of God are here written in bloody characters, for the conviction or the confusion of all those that make a jest of his threatenings. Let them not be deceived, God is not mocked.

~ Matthew Henry

God's judgment is not like man's judgment. It is not a suspension of His Love but an extension of His Love. His justice is always righteous, so His judgment is always Love.

~ Criss Jami

If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror? If every man was truly created equal, and in the image of God, then how can any man claim that one race is better than another, or that one nation is less deserving than another?

~ Suzy Kassem

They came to realize that, even if evil and injustice seemed to win at some point, God would still be the ultimate victor. In the end good and justice would prevail forever.

~ Therese May

God was just. She held on to that knowledge and the hope that the day of justice would eventually arrive.

~ Dee Henderson

A righteous God isn't bound by time. He has an eternity to make things right.

~ Shannon Dittemore

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

~ Anonymous