Quotations on God
When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
-George Bernard Shaw
I cannot imagine a God rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are moulded after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither do I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear of ridiculous egotisms.
-Albert Einstein
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
-Emily Dickinson
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo Galilei
God has no religion.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
-Susan B. Anthony
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
-Georges Duhamel
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
-Chapman Cohen
Do I believe God is going to take away my illness when he turned an entirely deaf ear to the six million Jews who went into the gas chambers?
-Karen Armstrong
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
-Eric Hoffer
To profess to be doing God's will is a form of megalomania.
-Joseph Prescott
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
-Epicurus
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask.
-Michio Kaku
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, 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.
-Marcus Aurelius
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.
-Bertrand Russell
Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him.
-Rebecca West
There is a rumor going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
-Terry Pratchett

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