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God Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade…
- Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions…
- That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful…
- The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as…
- Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.…
- When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the…
- I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of…
- But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all…
- A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and…
- I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus…
- I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful; but when in doubt I…
- I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference:…
- I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower…
- I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the…
- To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search…
- The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the…
- Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to…
- The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest but the most complete of all the distinctions between man and the…
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