The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence…

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Leniency toward criminals contrasted starkly with severity toward the law-abiding citizen’s right to defend himself or herself.”

— Joyce Lee Malcolm

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the…

— Denis Diderot

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

— Anonymous

If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.

— Gregory Skovoroda

A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to…

— Ole Hallesby

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

— Albert Camus

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

— Voltaire

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

— John Tillotson

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

— Voltaire

God is not necessary to createculpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

— Albert Camus

God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two…

— Anonymous

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

— Joseph de Maistre

“God is a necessary evil.”

— Manoj Vaz