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God Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
- Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
- With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.
- There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could…
- After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
- God, who winds up our sundials ...
- Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.
- It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea…
- God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
- We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious:…
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- 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