Sunday 4 July 2010

My favourite 'God quotes'


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"God has no religion."  Mahatma Gandhi

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"You must believe in God, despite what the clergy tell you." - Benjamin Jowett

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"In the absence of any other proof the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence." - Isaac Newton

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"I think it is a sign of human weakness to try to find out the shape and form of God." - Pliny the Elder

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"That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. - Albert Einstein  (I would prefer 'superior' being to 'superior reasoning')

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"The nature of God is a circle of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere." - Empedocles (The only 'definition' of God that works?)

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"God is a verb, not a noun....". - Buckminster Fuller

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"God is beauty" - St Francis of Assisi

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"God speaks to us every day, but we don't know how to listen." - Mahatma Ghandi

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The sun, with all those planets revolving round it and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." - Galileo Galilei

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"Why dost thou prate of God?  What ever thou sayest of him is untrue." - Meister Eckhart

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SOURCE - pp 136-7 Advanced Banter by Lloyd & Hutchinson

Sun image and image of grapes from WikiPedia

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