This only is denied to God: the power to undo¹ the past.

Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC), from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics²

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice³.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), In a letter to Max Born, 1926

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), Newsweek, 01-02-06

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody⁴ tears? Why worry about the alleged⁵ weeping of a plaster effigy⁶ when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), Newsweek, 01-02-06

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

Anonymous⁷, Graffito

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Think of yourself as an incandescent⁸ power, illuminated⁹ and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Brenda Ueland

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

Caspian Tredwell-Owen, and Alex Kurtzman, The Island, 2005

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Doris Egan, House M.D., House vs. God, 2006

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse¹⁰.

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations¹¹, and not to be constrained¹² by force.

Flavius Josephus (37 AD - 100 AD), Life

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal¹³ Spellman (1889 - 1967)

I could prove God statistically¹⁴.

George Gallup (1901 - 1984)

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey¹⁵

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott, Standing¹⁶ Room Only weblog, 05-01-04

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

J. G. Holland

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks, The Bleat¹⁷ web log, September 15, 2003

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

Jewish Proverb

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008

I don’t think God gives a shit if we have a dog or if a woman wears shorts. I think He gives a shit about whether you’re a good person.

John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness¹⁸. The galling¹⁹ harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

John Muir (1838 - 1914), John of the Mountains, 1938

No synonym²⁰ for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving²¹ the lines of the mountains with glaciers²², or gathering²³ matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

John Muir (1838 - 1914), Atlantic Monthly, January 1869