“...then ask yourself...whether you have really lost God?...and if you feel with horror that even now he is not present, at the moment when we are talking about him, what then gives you the right to miss him who never was, as if he had disappeared, and to search for him as if he were lost?”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I would like to remind the black ministry, and indeed all black people, that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people’s problems on earth.”— Steve Biko, amazon.com
“My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Est…”— Barry Goldwater, newspapers.com
“These may be termed Utopian dreams. – Thanks to that Being who impressed them on my soul, and gave me sufficient strength of mind to dare to exert my own reason, till, becoming dependent only on him for the support of my virtue, I view, with indignation, the mistaken notions that enslave my sex. I l…”— Mary Shelley, books.google.com
“The problem with the Pledge of Allegiance isn't the ‘God’ part. It's the ‘pledge’ part. Does a child know what kind of commitment he's making, and to whom, and at what cost?”— Garry Shandling, esquire.com
“Grey dawn was seeping into the sick room. I lay in the middle of the bed with my hands outside the bedclothes, looking straight ahead. Now I was in a pact with God. I had promised to serve him if I survived, if he allowed me to escape the tuberculosis. Now I could never be as before.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“There will never be peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, r…”— Pat Robertson, books.google.com
“God considers this land to be his. You read the Bible and he says 'This is my land,' and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he is going to carve it up and give it away, God says, 'No, this is mine.' ...”— Pat Robertson, books.google.com
“People who are atheists, they hate God, they hate the expression of God, and they are angry with the world, angry with themselves, angry with society and they take it out on innocent people who are worshipping God.”— Pat Robertson, christianpost.com
“God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life…”— Pat Robertson, books.google.com
“Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.”— Millard Fillmore, en.wikiquote.org
“I was never concerned with personal records. Playing to the best of my God-given ability was my attitude and motivation.”— Pete Maravich, ccel.us
“Being in the nude isn't a disgrace unless you're being promiscuous about it. After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too!”— Bettie Page, latimesblogs.latimes.com
“Do I believe in God? Yes, when I am working. When I am submissive and modest, I feel myself to be greatly helped by someone who causes me to do things that exceed my capabilities. However, I cannot acknowledge him because it is as if I were to find myself before a conjuror whose sleight of hand elud…”— Henri Matisse, amazon.com
“Will any dare to speak against loving the Lord our God with all our heart, and our neighbour as ourselves? against a renewal of heart, not only in part, but in the whole image of God? Who is he that will open his mouth against being cleansed from all pollution both of flesh and spirit; or against ha…”— John Wesley, amazon.com
“Three engineers are discussing God's engineering background. The first one says, "God was clearly an electrical engineer. The human nervous system is a feat of electrical engineering genius!" The second one says, "Absolutely not! He was a mechanical engineer. The way the muscles and bones interact a…”— binaryPilot84, reddit.com