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- This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
- 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 (1953 - ), 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 (1953 - ), 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)
- 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 (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
- Doris Egan, House M.D., House vs. God, 2006
- 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)
- Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 06-10-04
- EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We’re looking for something, though we’re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2003
- I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2004
- When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-25-05
- 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
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