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God Quotes by Mark Twain
- If there is a God, he is a malign thug.
- Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in…
- There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish…
- Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
- Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.
- Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He…
- We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's…
- Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
- Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.
- No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
- No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field,…
- O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the…
- Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
- God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.
- We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a…
- To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
- In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple,…
- Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon…
- There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an…
- Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been…
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