"God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved."

God,

14

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved."

Exlpore more God quotes

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God, Work

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

God, Atheism, Philosophy

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

Voltaire, French Writer

God,

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

Voltaire, French Writer

God,

"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

God, Humor, Performance, Being

"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

God,

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

God, Truth, People, Idea

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

God, Animals, Being, Disease

"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

God, Decency, Man, Mind

"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

God, Guilt

Explore more quotes by Andre Gide

"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."

Work

"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle."

People

"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."

Generosity

""Therefore" is a word the poet must not know."

Literature

"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."

Travel

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."

Beginning

"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."

Obvious

14

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more God quotes

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

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

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

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

"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."

"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."

Explore more quotes by Andre Gide

"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."

"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle."

"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."

""Therefore" is a word the poet must not know."

"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."

"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."

"Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness."

"The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions."

"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."