“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
Questions about God have occupied human minds for as long as human minds have existed. These quotes approach the divine from every angle — faith, doubt, reverence, and the honest wrestling that happens when you take the biggest questions seriously.
“Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.”
“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
“Conscience is God present in man.”
“But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.”
“God's finger touched him, and he slept.”
“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.”
“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
“So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.”
“Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.”
“As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God.”
“Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”
“As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.”
“Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.”
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”
“Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.”