Quotes about God [ Authors F to K ]

Richard Feynman: “God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you’re taking away from God; you don’t need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven’t figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don’t believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time — life and death — stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don’t think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.” 1

Charles Fort: “If there is a universal mind, must it necessarily be sane?”

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: “God has no religion.”

Goethe: “As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.”

Sherwood Goozee: “Christian reference to ‘God the Father’ also poses a problem. Show me a father who wants his children prostrate before him, praying, pleading for mercy, worshiping him, and who then doles out rewards to the chosen submissive ones, and I’ll show you a bad father.” From the essay IZ Sense.

Sam Harris: “Words like ‘God’ and ‘Allah’ must go the way of ‘Apollo’ and ‘Baal’ or they will unmake our world.” Sam Harris is author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.

Christopher Hitchens: “God did not make man in his own image. Evidently it was the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilizations.”

Thomas Jefferson: “It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

Arthur Koestler: “God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.”

References used:

religioustolerance.org

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Quoted by P.C.W. Davies and J. Brown in “Superstrings: A Theory of Everything,” Page 208.

Quotes about God [ Authors F to K ]

Richard Feynman: “God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you’re taking away from God; you don’t need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven’t figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don’t believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time — life and death — stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don’t think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.” 1

Charles Fort: “If there is a universal mind, must it necessarily be sane?”

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: “God has no religion.”

Goethe: “As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.”

Sherwood Goozee: “Christian reference to ‘God the Father’ also poses a problem. Show me a father who wants his children prostrate before him, praying, pleading for mercy, worshiping him, and who then doles out rewards to the chosen submissive ones, and I’ll show you a bad father.” From the essay IZ Sense.

Sam Harris: “Words like ‘God’ and ‘Allah’ must go the way of ‘Apollo’ and ‘Baal’ or they will unmake our world.” Sam Harris is author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.

Christopher Hitchens: “God did not make man in his own image. Evidently it was the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilizations.”

Thomas Jefferson: “It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

Arthur Koestler: “God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.”

References used:

religioustolerance.org

The following information source was used to prepare and update the above essay. The hyperlink is not necessarily still active today.
Quoted by P.C.W. Davies and J. Brown in “Superstrings: A Theory of Everything,” Page 208.

Quotes about God [ Authors A to E ]

E.S. Abernathy, Jr.: “where no explanation exists, there can only be one answer: God and not just any God but their God.” From a review on Amazon of the book “20 Compelling Evidences That God Exists: Discover Why Believing In God Makes So Much Sense” Review / order it Abernathy does not believe this; he is pointing out an error by the authors of the book.

David Anderson: “The God or Gods we worship are more a part of us than we realize….Only by understanding how in our own minds we have defined their nature can we begin to understand the underlying forces that make us behave the way we do..”

Anon: “You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image, when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” Sometimes attributed to Anne Lamott or Fr. John Weston.

“How each of us understands the meaning of life comes down to how we answer one ultimate question: Does God really exist?” (Taken from a WCNY/PBS advertisement for a program “The Question of God.)”

“No one doubted the existence of God until theologians starting trying to prove his existence.”

“God’s hatred is one of his Holy attributes.” A statement from Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KA.

“I screamed at God for all the starving children, and then I realized that all of the starving children were God screaming at me.”

“Some say God is nowhere. Others say God is now here. One space makes all the difference.”

The/an anonymous author of the Gospel of John: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16; KJV)

Paraphrase of John 3:16: “For God so hated humanity that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever does not believe in him will not perish but have everlasting life being tortured for all eternity in Hell without hope of forgiveness.”

Susan B. Anthony: “I distrust those who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

Karen Armstrong: “Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.”

Louis Agassiz (famous 19th century scientist): “It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.”

David Anderson, “We pattern our thoughts and actions after the God or Gods we worship. They are more a part of us than we realize. Only by understanding how in our own minds we have defined their nature can we begin to understand the underlying forces that make us behave the way we do.”

Ron Buford: “God is still speaking,” A slogan adopted by the United Church of Christ. It was partly inspired by a statement by Gracie Allen allegedly written to her husband George Burns: “Never place a period where God has placed a comma.” 1

President George W. Bush: “I don’t see how you can be president at least from my perspective, how you can be president, without a relationship with the Lord,” 2004-JAN-11 in an interview with The Washington Times. 2

Joseph Campbell: “God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought.”

Richard Dawkins: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction. Jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic-cleanser; a misogynistic homophobic racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal …” 3

“The trouble is that God in this sophisticated, physicist’s sense bears no resemblance to the God of the Bible or any other religion. If a physicist says God is another name for Planck’s constant, or God is a superstring, we should take it as a picturesque metaphorical way of saying that the nature of superstrings or the value of Planck’s constant is a profound mystery. It has obviously not the smallest connection with a being capable of forgiving sins, a being who might listen to prayers, who cares about whether or not the Sabbath begins at 5pm or 6pm, whether you wear a veil or have a bit of arm showing; and no connection whatever with a being capable of imposing a death penalty on His son to expiate the sins of the world before and after he was born.”

Meister Eckhart: “Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.”

Jonathan Edwards: “The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.”

Bart Ehrman: “Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option — legend.”

Albert Einstein: “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself (or herself) in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.”

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

References used:

religioustolerance.org
The following information sources were used to prepare and update the above essay.
“God is still speaking,” United Church of Christ, at: http://www.stillspeaking.com/
James G. Lakely, “President outlines role of his faith,” The Washington Times, 2004-JAN-12, at: http://washingtontimes.com/
Richard Dawkins, “The God Delusion,” Houghton Miffin, (2006). Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store

Quotes about God [ Authors A to E ]

E.S. Abernathy, Jr.: “where no explanation exists, there can only be one answer: God and not just any God but their God.” From a review on Amazon of the book “20 Compelling Evidences That God Exists: Discover Why Believing In God Makes So Much Sense” Review / order it Abernathy does not believe this; he is pointing out an error by the authors of the book.

David Anderson: “The God or Gods we worship are more a part of us than we realize….Only by understanding how in our own minds we have defined their nature can we begin to understand the underlying forces that make us behave the way we do..”

Anon: “You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image, when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” Sometimes attributed to Anne Lamott or Fr. John Weston.

“How each of us understands the meaning of life comes down to how we answer one ultimate question: Does God really exist?” (Taken from a WCNY/PBS advertisement for a program “The Question of God.)”

“No one doubted the existence of God until theologians starting trying to prove his existence.”

“God’s hatred is one of his Holy attributes.” A statement from Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KA.

“I screamed at God for all the starving children, and then I realized that all of the starving children were God screaming at me.”

“Some say God is nowhere. Others say God is now here. One space makes all the difference.”

The/an anonymous author of the Gospel of John: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16; KJV)

Paraphrase of John 3:16: “For God so hated humanity that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever does not believe in him will not perish but have everlasting life being tortured for all eternity in Hell without hope of forgiveness.”

Susan B. Anthony: “I distrust those who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

Karen Armstrong: “Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.”

Louis Agassiz (famous 19th century scientist): “It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God.”

David Anderson, “We pattern our thoughts and actions after the God or Gods we worship. They are more a part of us than we realize. Only by understanding how in our own minds we have defined their nature can we begin to understand the underlying forces that make us behave the way we do.”

Ron Buford: “God is still speaking,” A slogan adopted by the United Church of Christ. It was partly inspired by a statement by Gracie Allen allegedly written to her husband George Burns: “Never place a period where God has placed a comma.” 1

President George W. Bush: “I don’t see how you can be president at least from my perspective, how you can be president, without a relationship with the Lord,” 2004-JAN-11 in an interview with The Washington Times. 2

Joseph Campbell: “God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought.”

Richard Dawkins: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction. Jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic-cleanser; a misogynistic homophobic racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal …” 3

“The trouble is that God in this sophisticated, physicist’s sense bears no resemblance to the God of the Bible or any other religion. If a physicist says God is another name for Planck’s constant, or God is a superstring, we should take it as a picturesque metaphorical way of saying that the nature of superstrings or the value of Planck’s constant is a profound mystery. It has obviously not the smallest connection with a being capable of forgiving sins, a being who might listen to prayers, who cares about whether or not the Sabbath begins at 5pm or 6pm, whether you wear a veil or have a bit of arm showing; and no connection whatever with a being capable of imposing a death penalty on His son to expiate the sins of the world before and after he was born.”

Meister Eckhart: “Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.”

Jonathan Edwards: “The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.”

Bart Ehrman: “Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option — legend.”

Albert Einstein: “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself (or herself) in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.”

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

References used:

religioustolerance.org
The following information sources were used to prepare and update the above essay.
“God is still speaking,” United Church of Christ, at: http://www.stillspeaking.com/
James G. Lakely, “President outlines role of his faith,” The Washington Times, 2004-JAN-12, at: http://washingtontimes.com/
Richard Dawkins, “The God Delusion,” Houghton Miffin, (2006). Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store

Adevărata pace sufletească poate fi întemeiată doar pe Stâncă

Pe ce anume îţi clădeşti viaţa? Căci, crezi sau nu, fiecare dintre noi îşi clădeşte viaţa pe ceva. Fiecare avem o temelie, ceva în care ne punem nădejdea şi încrederea. Poate că acest ceva este reprezentat de propria persoană: „Ştiu că pot reuşi în viaţă dacă mă străduiesc cu adevărat.” Sau poate fi un stil de viaţă: „Dacă aş putea câştiga suficienţi bani, ce minunată ar fi viaţa!” Sau poate chiar o perioadă de timp: „Noul mileniu în care am intrat va schimba situaţia de fapt.”

Ei bine, Dumnezeu are o altă opinie. El spune că suntem pe un teren nesigur dacă ne punem nădejdea şi încrederea în noi înşine, în alţi oameni sau în ceea ce ne oferă această lume. El vrea să ne încredem în El. Tocmai din acest motiv spune: „De aceea, pe orişicine aude aceste cuvinte ale Mele şi le face, îl voi asemăna cu un om cu judecată, care şi-a zidit casa pe stâncă. A dat ploaia, au venit şuvoaiele, au suflat vânturile şi au bătut în casa aceea, dar ea nu s-a prăbuşit, pentru că avea temelia zidită pe stâncă. Însă orişicine aude aceste cuvinte ale Mele, şi nu le face, va fi asemănat cu un om nechibzuit, care şi-a zidit casa pe nisip. A dat ploaia, au venit şuvoaiele, au suflat vânturile şi au izbit în casa aceea: ea s-a prăbuşit, şi prăbuşirea i-a fost mare.”5

Este un lucru înţelept să-L avem pe Dumnezeu în viaţa noastră în acele clipe când avem necazuri. Însă Dumnezeu doreşte să avem o viaţă bogată indiferent de situaţia în care ne-am afla. El vrea să aibă o influenţă pozitivă în fiecare sferă a vieţii noastre. Iar atunci când ne bizuim pe El şi pe cuvintele Sale, ne clădim viaţa pe Stâncă.

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Adevărata pace sufletească poate fi întemeiată doar pe Stâncă

Pe ce anume îţi clădeşti viaţa? Căci, crezi sau nu, fiecare dintre noi îşi clădeşte viaţa pe ceva. Fiecare avem o temelie, ceva în care ne punem nădejdea şi încrederea. Poate că acest ceva este reprezentat de propria persoană: „Ştiu că pot reuşi în viaţă dacă mă străduiesc cu adevărat.” Sau poate fi un stil de viaţă: „Dacă aş putea câştiga suficienţi bani, ce minunată ar fi viaţa!” Sau poate chiar o perioadă de timp: „Noul mileniu în care am intrat va schimba situaţia de fapt.”

Ei bine, Dumnezeu are o altă opinie. El spune că suntem pe un teren nesigur dacă ne punem nădejdea şi încrederea în noi înşine, în alţi oameni sau în ceea ce ne oferă această lume. El vrea să ne încredem în El. Tocmai din acest motiv spune: „De aceea, pe orişicine aude aceste cuvinte ale Mele şi le face, îl voi asemăna cu un om cu judecată, care şi-a zidit casa pe stâncă. A dat ploaia, au venit şuvoaiele, au suflat vânturile şi au bătut în casa aceea, dar ea nu s-a prăbuşit, pentru că avea temelia zidită pe stâncă. Însă orişicine aude aceste cuvinte ale Mele, şi nu le face, va fi asemănat cu un om nechibzuit, care şi-a zidit casa pe nisip. A dat ploaia, au venit şuvoaiele, au suflat vânturile şi au izbit în casa aceea: ea s-a prăbuşit, şi prăbuşirea i-a fost mare.”5

Este un lucru înţelept să-L avem pe Dumnezeu în viaţa noastră în acele clipe când avem necazuri. Însă Dumnezeu doreşte să avem o viaţă bogată indiferent de situaţia în care ne-am afla. El vrea să aibă o influenţă pozitivă în fiecare sferă a vieţii noastre. Iar atunci când ne bizuim pe El şi pe cuvintele Sale, ne clădim viaţa pe Stâncă.

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