#god

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

#animal #being #between #body #dominance

I always said God was against art and I still believe it. ↗

— Edward Elgar

#always #art #believe #god #i

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#condemn #condemns #forgives #god #law

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#gentle #god #passed #sound #stillness

When belief in a god dies, the god dies. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#dies #god

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. ↗

— Empedocles

#beliefs #dark #divine #gained #gods

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. ↗

— Epicurus

#another #evil #forever #god #listened

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not. ↗

— Millard Fillmore

#evident #god #may #people #save

David wasn't thinking of being king when he was tending sheep; he was just doing what God sat before him. ↗

— John Fisher

#being #david #doing #god #him

The process is very gradual, you see. At first there's the tainted stage; they know what will eventually happen to them if they go on but they say, 'Oh God, don't do it to me do it again, please, please.' ↗

— Terence Fisher

#eventually #first #go #god #gradual