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God Quotes by Umberto Eco
- The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.
- A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would…
- Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.
- "Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?"…
- But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether…
- Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after…
- When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
- Libraries can take the place of God.
- The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that…
- I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted…
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