#god

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. ↗

— George Santayana

#denies #fashioned #gods #human #image

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. ↗

— George Santayana

#brief #could #created #fear #first

But look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights, the government can take them away. When government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#exercise #gives #god #government #happens

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#cannot #cries #deny #does #exist

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.' ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#before #bruise #client #difficult #face

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#alive #being #case #dead #deal

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#bankers #been #god #going #hell

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#died #forward #god #leaders #only

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #god #had #i #i think

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#feels #god #how #learn #love