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Rev. Jerry Falwell: "I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation." |
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Richard Feynman: "God was invented to explain mystery. God is
always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now,
when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which
you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But you need him
for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe
because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding
those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as
consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time -- life and
death -- stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that
you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the laws can be
considered to be like God because they have been figured out." 1 |
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Martin F. Fischer: "If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout." |
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Walter Fontana: "Do I believe in God? Well, believing it's too much, I'd better say I esteem him." |
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Charles Fort: "If there is a universal mind, must it
necessarily be sane?" |
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Harry Emerson Fosdick: " God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done." |
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Anatole France: "Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign." |
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Paul Frost: " 'What do you think of God,' the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, 'He's not a think, he's a feel'." |
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Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963): "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee / And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me." From Cluster of Faith (1962) |
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:
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André Glucksmann (1937-): "My ideas about religion are confined to the absurd belief that God created man and vice versa." |
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Goethe: "As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft
strangely odd." |
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Sherwood Goozee: "Christian reference to 'God the Father' also
poses a problem. Show me a father who wants his children prostrate before
him, praying, pleading for mercy, worshiping him, and who then doles out
rewards to the chosen submissive ones, and I'll show you a bad father." From
the essay IZ Sense. |
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Sam Harris: "Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way
of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world." Sam Harris is author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the
Future of Reason. |
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Christopher Hitchens: "God did not make man in his own image.
Evidently it was the other way about, which is the painless explanation for
the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and
among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the
development of civilizations." |
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Victor Hugo, "Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees." |
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Thomas Jefferson: "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." |
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James Weldon Johnson: "Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God." |
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Joseph Joubert:: "It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.." |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: "We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter." From Strength to Love, 1963
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John Knox: "A man with God is always in the majority." |
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Arthur Koestler: "God seems to have left the receiver
off the hook and time is running out." |
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C.S. Lewis:
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Thomas A. Lewis, posting to an Amazon.com chat: "I don't believe
in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus.
... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely
natural universe." |
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Mignon McLaughlin: "How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him." |
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Thomas Merton: "Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about him. |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay: "The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through." |
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David Nicholas: "God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine." |
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F.W. Norwood: "Life’s greatest tragedy is to lose God and not to miss him." |
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Sarah Palin: "God's will has to be done in unifying
people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that." From a
speech in 2007-JUN at the Wasilla Assembly of God church. 3,4 |
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Sylvia Plath: "Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?" |
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Alexander Pope: "All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul." From An Essay on Man, 1734. |
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Pope John Paul II: "An effective proclamation of the
Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly
the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism which has cast doubt
on reason's ability to know the truth, which alone satisfies the human
heart's restless quest for meaning." |
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Pope Xystus I: "God is not the name of God, but an opinion about Him" From The Ring. |
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Eleanor Powell: "What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God." |
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Anne Provoost: "If your God is going to drown the world; if your
God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God?" |
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References used:
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- Quoted by P.C.W. Davies and J. Brown in "Superstrings: A Theory of Everything," Page 208.
- Gene Johnson, "Iraq war, gas line God's will, Palin said," Associate Press, 2008-SEP-04, at: http://www.adn.com/
- Video clip from Sarah Palin's speech. YouTube, at: http://www.youtube.com/
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