"God is the perfect poet."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God, Work

"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

God, Atheism, Philosophy

"The gods are watching, but idly, yawning."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

God, Gods

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

God, Man, Reason

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

God, Eyes

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time."

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"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice."

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"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."

"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"The gods are watching, but idly, yawning."

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

Explore more quotes by Robert Browning

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"

"What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold."

"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time."

"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice."

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

"What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?"

"Faultless to a fault."

"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."

"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"