Nassim Nicholas Taleb quote: "I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush."

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere...
CHARLEY PRIDE

A choice from the gods is as useless as the gods themselves!
KRATOS - GOD OF WAR

Some revelations have been reserved for the last days for God to accomplish His original plan.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY

Jesus is very much alive and well in the twenty-first century. Jesus is revealed in the lives and wo...
NIK RIPKEN THE INSANITY OF GOD

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don'...
ERNEST GAINES

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pic...
JULIA CHILD

Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER

To say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is the Almighty, the Possessor of all power in He...
ARTHUR W. PINK

God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same th...
FEISAL ABDUL RAUF

The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak.
INDONESIA123

I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the exi...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
RALPH STEADMAN

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,'...
RICHARD DAWKINS

God has the capacity to look at the world through two lenses. When God looks at a painful or wicked ...
JOHN PIPER

I do believe in God. I don't believe in God as a person, but I believe in God as a state of ener...
DAVID DOBKIN

when you courageously believe in the power of doubt instead of the power of God, you much see the wo...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Chesh...
JULIAN HUXLEY

When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to...
FULTON J. SHEEN

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.
BRUCE WILLIS

The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during th...
AL FRANKEN

The more we aware we become of God in us, the more overwhelmed we are with a sense of total fulfilme...
FRANçOIS DU TOIT

All I'm saying is, is God the god who we look to for comfort during tragedies? Is he the god who...
BENJAMIN WATSON

I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denominat...
RAY CHARLES

To be chosen as the Beloved of God is something radically different. Instead of excluding others, it...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN

One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Wh...
DAVID GREGORY

The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there...
FEISAL ABDUL RAUF

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? F...
SUN MYUNG MOON

In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah...
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN

Now what is the will of God? That's the big question. You can't say the will of God is to disrespect...
CHUCK D

God’s on your side; be on God’s side!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR

The idea that God's mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous, and I need to jus...
MATISYAHU

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God... Reverence to God and reverence for...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL

Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
FRANCINE RIVERS

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God...
BOB DYLAN

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even ...
POPE FRANCIS

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't wan...
KELLY CLARKSON

This God of Abraham has a good job, a very good job indeed, he’s credited by his followers for hon...
BOBBY W. MILLER

I believe if God doesn't give you a miracle, you are a miracle of God for somebody else's sa...
NICK VUJICIC

We're always taught that God wants us to always only say "I can't do this without You God" , "Whatev...
C. JOYBELL C.

When unity of the mind, speech and body occurs, God has called that the ‘foremost’ religion. If ...
DADA BHAGWAN

In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.
MICHAEL NOVAK

The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.
GREG BOYLE

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threa...
BILLY CORGAN

Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are bein...
THOMAS KINKADE

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's c...
DESMOND TUTU

'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion ...
ISAAC NEWTON

I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobod...
TRICK DADDY

Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my ...
GENE ROBINSON

Homines sunt voluntates
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO. - THE CITY OF GOD - XIV

I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires ...
JAMES LOVELOCK

There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This r...
JOHN ORTBERG

Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that ther...
DAVID ZUCKER

They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity...
GEOFFREY WOOD

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of G...
JOHNNY CASH

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy n...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG

Success is guaranteed for any person who does the will of God. Success is fulfilling God’s will on...
SUNDAY ADELAJA

When you seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, Matthew 6:33, there becomes no need to...
PAUL HALBECK

The ironic fact is that humanism which began with man's being central eventually had no real meaning...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER

If you have a religion it must be cosmic.
C.S. LEWIS

What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness a...
MICHAEL LEWIS

I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in J...
POPE FRANCIS

Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can c...
ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ

The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the ma...
ELAINE PAGELS

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the gl...
JAMEY JOHNSON

True Christianity consists only in pure faith, love, and an holy life; which holiness of life spring...
JOHANN ARNDT

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the bui...
BONO

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

There's nothing spectacular about Prophet T.B Joshua. He is just like every other human being. B...
T. B. JOSHUA

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it i...
PHILIP YANCEY

God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pr...
MR. T

I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God c...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so n...
MEISTER ECKHART

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I...
ROHIT SHETTY

My husband stands on his own two feet; my religion is not a factor. God created and decided for me t...
RULA GHANI

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attain...
LIONEL BLUE

But, sir, isn't death a dreadful thing?" asked Malcolm.

"That depends on whether a man re...
GEORGE MACDONALD

God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's ...
EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS

I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a go...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connecti...
GREG BOYLE

God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
DALE MURPHY

To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical ...
MEIR SOLOVEICHIK

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

The future is out of my hands; it is in God's.
RAFAEL DOS ANJOS

We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other...
BILLY GRAHAM

The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the domi...
ISAAC NEWTON

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almight...
HAROLD HOLZER

God cannot and will not give us a sense of lasting pleasure apart from him, because it violates his ...
KYLE IDLEMAN

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what ...
ADAM HAMILTON

God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room...
MARGOT KIDDER

I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being th...
VERA FARMIGA

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it...
RICK WARREN

There is a God! And his name be Awesome, the Mighty.
BRIAN CLEVINGER

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to...
RODNEY KING

If God created everything, and if man is created in God's image, and if man can dream a fate greater...
MICHAEL ANTHONY

God's delays are not God's denials.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER

Every war, every plague is God’s judgment. But every man who rises up to stop the wars and the pla...
JOHN KRAMER

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

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