Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
—Anatole France
I don't think, in our kind of society, we'll be able to develop a full-blown mystical religion or concept of God because we seek instant gratification, fast food, endless talk and noise. The silence in mysticism is alien. People want to do a few courses in mysticism, rather like the way you do French before going on holiday, and emerge a mystic. Mysticism isn't like that.
—Karen Armstrong
Joan of Arc: I hear voices telling me what to do. They come from God.
Robert: They come from your imagination.
Joan: Of course. That is how the messages of God come to us.
—George Bernard Shaw
We must return to nature and nature's god.
—Luther Burbank
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
—Mel Brooks
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
—Ellen DeGeneres
God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.
—Elbert Hubbard
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
—Peter O'Toole
God is in the details.
—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J. M. Barrie
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
—Malcolm de Chazal
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
—Christopher Morley in Hide and Seek
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne
Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23.1: "If your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord.
—Donald Morgan
My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he might be willing to admit that God in Hebrew said the Jews could have Israel. But, he said, Allah did not speak it in Arabic to the Arabs.
—Arthur Hertzberg