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God Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
- God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
- I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.
- If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.
- We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
- In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that…
- Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
- Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as…
- If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to…
- At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else,…
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- 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