God - Quotes and Proverbs

One God? Many Gods? God, Goddess or no God? Here is a collection of proverbs and quotes that refer to God or Gods.

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Man proposes, God disposes.

Our destiny depends on God's will.

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees.

Paulo Coelho
Source: The Alchemist

Mushrooms are the food of the gods.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Walter Savage Landor

Only God can make a tree.

(unknown author)

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

Richard Dawkins
Source: The God delusion

PROGRESS. The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

H.L. Mencken

Sit on a wasp's nest and say 'God wills it!'.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Francis Bacon

So man created god in his own image, in the image of man he created him.

(unknown author)

Solitude is full of God.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

Pope John Paul II

The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Bible
Source: Genesis 1:12

The eyeless ant asked God: 'Give me eye-lashes'.

The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

Carl Sagan

Then God said, 'Let the land burst forth with every sort of grass and seed-bearing plant. And let there be trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. The seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.' And so it was. The land was filled with seed-bearing plants and trees, and their seeds produced plants and trees of like kind. And God saw that it was good.

Bible
Source: Genesis 1:11-12

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

Daniel Dennett

There is a growing movement called Humanism, which promotes a non-supernatural basis for meaning and ethics: good without God.

Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

There is only one god, and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: "Not today."

George R.R. Martin
Source: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1: A Game of Thrones

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

Benjamin Franklin

Though God is almighty, he doesn't send rain from a clear sky.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Richard Dawkins

We are each free to believe what we want, and it's my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god.

Stephen Hawking

What a joy walking is. All the cares of life, all the hopeless, inept fuckwits that God has strewn along the Bill Bryson Highway of Life suddenly seem far away and harmless, and the world becomes tranquil and welcoming and good.

Bill Bryson
Source: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain