Citations:God
English citations of God
- 1741 July 8, Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God […], published 1772, pages 7–8:
- There is no fortress that is any defence from the power of God. […] The sword of divine justice is every moment brandished over their heads, and ’tis nothing but the hand of arbitrary mercy, and God’s meer will, that holds it back.
- 1916, The Christian Science Journal[1], volume 33, page 374:
- Few stop to reflect that to acknowledge evil as real is equivalent to saying that there are places in the universe where there is no God, a conclusion which the psalmist credits not to the wise man, but to the fool.
- 1973, Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man (paperback), published 2011, →ISBN, page 196:
- [Einstein] was fond of talking about God: ‘God does not play at dice’, ‘God is not malicious’. Finally Niels Bohr one day said to him, ‘Stop telling God what to do’.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pages 29–30:
- ‘What gives you the right to talk to me like that, boy? What on earth gives you the right?’
Adrian was furious to find there were tears springing to his eyes. ‘God gives me the right, sir, because God loves me. And God won't let me be judged by a f-f-fascist – hypocrite – bastard like you!’
- ‘What gives you the right to talk to me like that, boy? What on earth gives you the right?’
- 1994, Peter Kreeft, Ronald Keith Tacelli, Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions, InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 138:
- To ask why God didn't create such a world is like asking why God didn't create colorless color or round squares.
- 1994, Peter Kreeft, Your Questions, God's Answers, Ignatius Press, →ISBN, page 113:
- If he knows he is not God and still says he is and wants you to worship him, then he is a very bad man indeed: a liar and a blasphemer.
- 1998, Swami Ramdas, edited by Susunaga Weeraperuma, Servant of God: Sayings of a Self-Realised Sage Swami Ramdas, illustrated edition, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., →ISBN, page 32:
- Bhakti is the adoration of God, who dwells in his own heart and fills the universe, and surrender of all his actions to Him.
- 2001, Gregory A. Boyd, Satan and the Problem of Evil: Constructing a Trinitarian Warfare Theodicy, InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 147:
- If God is not sovereign, he is not God. If he is not God, he simply is not. If chance is, God is not. If God is, chance is not.
- 2003, Hennie J. Marsman, Women in Ugarit and Israel: Their Social and Religious Position in the Context of the Ancient Near East, BRILL, →ISBN, page 227:
- Johannes de Moor has argued convincingly that the Priestly writer assumed the first human being was androgynous, both male and female, like God him/herself.
- 2005, Richard Carrier, Sense and Goodness without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 74:
- What does God need a Big Bang for? That's a terribly slow, messy, complicated way to create a universe, much less people.
- 2007, John C. Conley, Letters to My Friends: A No Guarantees Guide to Awakening, John C. Conley, →ISBN, page 199:
- I talk about how I see God in the eyes of my friends. I talk about how I see God in the beauty of a woman. I talk about how I smell God in the dewed sweetness of a rose. I talk about how I taste God in the nectar of a pear.
- 2007, Paul Copan, Loving Wisdom: Christian Philosophy of Religion, Chalice Press, →ISBN, page 91:
- Some nontheists—and even some theists—will say that "Murder is wrong" would hold true even if God didn't exist; such moral values are just "brute facts."
- 2007, Myles Munroe, Myles Munroe Devotional & Journal: 365 Days to Realize Your Potential, Destiny Image Publishers, →ISBN, page 209:
- “If God is with me, who can be against me?” The implication is that if God has given you something to do and He is with you, nothing or no one is going to stop you from accomplishing what God wants you to do.
- 2010, Geri Scazzero, I Quit!: Stop Pretending Everything Is Fine and Change Your Life, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 42:
- Many people lie to God, only sharing with him what they think he wants to hear or what they ought to feel. I was one of them. Consider the absurdity of such a notion, as if God didn't know us better than we know ourselves.
Middle English citations of God
- c. 1400, Primer, 47
- God, fadir of heuene... God þe son... God þe holi gost, haue merci of us!
Old English citations of God
- c. 900, Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People (1891), iv. xvii. 312
- Wuldriende God Fæder butan fruman.
- c. 920, Aldred, Lindisfarne Gospels, John i. 1
- in fruma uæs uord & uord þæt is Godes sunu uæs mið God feder.