I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
-Voltaire
Quotations
God
Even the gods love jokes.
-Plato "Plato"
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
-Khalil Gibran
God can never be a definition. He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary.
-Terri Guillemets
God is as present as the air.
-Michael Holding
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
-Freeman Dyson
"The Meaning of Life"
The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.
-Annie Dillard
"Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters"
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
-John Fowles
"The French Lieutenant's Woman"
God laughs when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each other, ‘This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa "Ramakrishna Paramahamsa"
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
-Albert Camus
"Notebooks 1951-1959"
