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God Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end…
- The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has…
- I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the…
- The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
- The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
- I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the…
- God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world
- But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far…
- In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do…
- My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear,…
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