"Famous Quotes By Topic"

Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC), from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), In a letter to Max Born, 1926

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen, Newsweek, 01-02-06

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen, Newsweek, 01-02-06

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

Anonymous, Graffito

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), famous quotes

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen, and Alex Kurtzman, The Island, 2005

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters, 1999

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus (37 AD - 100 AD), Life

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889 - 1967)

I could prove God statistically.

George Gallup (1901 - 1984)

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05-01-04

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

Matthias, Correction Weblog, 11-01-03

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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