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God Quotes by Albert Camus
- I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't…
- Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
- We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
- Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.
- God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
- There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing…
- Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned…
- The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be…
- History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
- If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.
- Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish.…
- I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
- I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
- life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
- Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But…
- ...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I…
- The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to…
- Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had…
- What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in…
- The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov…
- I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if…
- God is not necessary to createculpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi