"This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past." - Agathon, quoted by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics

"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank." - Woody Allen

"God is not dead. He is alive and working; working on a less ambitious project." - Anonymous

"Evil and good are God's right hand and left." - Gamaliel Bailey

"Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us?" - Bible, Malachi 2:10

"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is." - Giordano Bruno

"God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm."
- William Cowper, Light Shining Out of Darkness

"If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him." - Denis Diderot

"Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish." - Albert Einstein

"God is subtle but he is not malicious." - Albert Einstein, attributed

"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God." - Euripides

"The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?" - Benjamin Franklin

"A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order." - Thomas Jefferson

"God means us to be free. With divine daring, He gave us the power of choice." - Cecil B. de Mille

"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God." - Seneca

"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world." - The Talmud

"To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd." - Voltaire

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." - Voltaire, Épître à l'auteur du livre des trois imposteurs

"We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is." - SAINT AUGUSTINE, De Trinitate

"God is seen God
In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod."
- ROBERT BROWNING, Saul

"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us." - PETER DE VRIES, The Mackerel Plaza

"I, at any rate, am convinced that God is not playing at dice." - ALBERT EINSTEIN, letter (1926)

"God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper." - R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, No More Secondhand God

"An honest god is the noblest work of man." - ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, The Gods, and Other Lectures

"The Holy One . . . requires the heart." - JUDAH BEN EZEKIEL, in the Talmud

"A mighty fortress is our God,
A bulwark never failing."
- MARTIN LUTHER, Ein' feste Burg

"Just are the ways of God,
And justifiable to men."
- JOHN MILTON, Samson Agonistes

"Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays

"It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are." - OVID, Ars Amatoria

"Man proposes, but God disposes." - THOMAS KEMPIS, Imitation of Christ

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--His eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." - Bible (Romans 1:20)

"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain." - Cary, Joyce

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Einstein, Albert

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use." - Galilei, Galileo

"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be." - Jackson, Holbrook

"Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad." - Laing, R. D.

"If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides." - Montesquieu, Charles de in 'Essays' 1580

"Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?" - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't." - Renard, Jules

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man." - Tagore, Rabindranath

"Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself." - Unamuno, Miguel de (1864-1936)

"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist; that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it." - Voltaire (1694-1778) in 'Epitre a l'auteur de livre des trois imposteurs' 10 Nov 1770

"The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together." - Yunus, Muhammad [Director, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh]