Thinking God Quotes:

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- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Change, Men, Mind, Individual Liberty, Theocracy

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Teacher, Jesus, Easter, Jesus God, Our Lord Jesus Christ

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

- Albert Einstein

topic: God, Religious, Lying, Called By God, Theism

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

- Steven Weinberg

source: "Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

topic: God, Atheist, People, Anti Religious, Theism

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Men, Rewards, Way, Science Religion, Modern Physics

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Death, God, Wisdom, Anti Religious, Intelligence And Education

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, Motivational, Coexist, Religious Life

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Religious, Atheist, Ignorance, Atheistic, Premature

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Nature, Thinking, Earth Day, Inspirational Environmental, Pantheism

Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Humble, Men, Theism, Science Religion

There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views

- Albert Einstein

topic: Views, People, Support, Theism, Make Me Angry

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

- Albert Einstein

source: Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., July 2, 1945.

topic: Atheist, Lying, June, Jesuit, Thinking God

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Existence, Boldness, Evidence Of God, Theism, World Religions

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Harmony, Inspirational Science, God Does Exist, Pantheism, Christian Science

It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.340, Running Press

topic: Religious, Thinking, Feelings, Thinking God

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

- Albert Einstein

topic: God, Science, Details, God Does Exist, Science Religion

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Religious, Heaven, Intelligence, Evidence Of God, Theism

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Faith, Atheist, True Friend, Religious Faith, Morality And Religion

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

- Chapman Cohen

source: "An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism" by Gordon Stein, Prometheus Books, (p. 258), 1980.

topic: Spiritual, Religious, Atheist, Funny Sarcastic, Fragile Things

I remember being in West Ham's youth team and seeing Jody Morris play for Chelsea at 17 and you scoring for Liverpool on your debut when you were 18. I was watching it on Soccer Saturday and I was like, "I can't believe he's scored!" It's professional jealousy. It's best to be honest about it. It gave me real desire. I was thinking "God I want that to be me".

- Frank Lampard

source: "JAMIE CARRAGHER INTERVIEWS FRANK LAMPARD: Foul-mouthed clashes, Steven Gerrard's emotional bouquet and why ex-Chelsea man still hasn't retired". Interview With Jamie Carragher, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 27, 2017.

topic: Soccer, Team, Real, Debut, West Ham

I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment.

- John Green

topic: Moving, Thinking, Invisibility Cloak, Worship You, Blinded

You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."

- Rian Johnson

source: "Rian Johnson’s Feedback Loop". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Fool, Just One, Thinking God

[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Song, Men, Thinking, Augustine, Thinking God

Honestly, I was just happy to get the work. I was chuffed to bits. I know David Furnish and Elton John a bit and I remember David talking very excitedly about it. This was going back four or five years even, when we were doing Little Britain at the Hammersmith Apollo. I'd lost my voice that night, but still did the show. I remember thinking: "God, they're going to think that's my voice and I'm not going to get in the film!" But it's just been a pleasure to be a part of.

- Matt Lucas

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Thinking, Night, Voice, Little Britain, Thinking God

I worked at a bunch of other salons, and at one, this girl was going out to do a photo shoot for a women's magazine and brought me along to assist her. I remember going on that shoot and thinking, "God, this is great. It's creative, and you get to work with all of these other creative people." At that point I decided that hair would be my in to fashion and all the things I thought I would enjoy - and did enjoy.

- Guido Palau

topic: Girl, Fashion, Thinking, Salons, Thinking God

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

- Nick Lowe

topic: Thinking, Careers, Pops, Thinking God

I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.

- Andy Serkis

topic: Wall, Real, Kids, Thinking God

Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!

- Chuck Smith

topic: Beautiful, Strong, Mistake, Thinking God

When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.

- Douglas Preston

source: "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

topic: Book, Writing, Thinking, Thinking God

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

- Terry Goodkind

topic: Thinking, Battle, Sides, Thinking God

I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.

- Joel Edgerton

topic: Thinking, Play, People, Thinking God

I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly nonsense for Kepler to exult that he was thinking God's thoughts after him. The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal.

- Brand Blanshard

topic: Thinking, Discovery, Talking, Hardy, Kepler

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!

- Jamie Campbell Bower

topic: Thinking, Guy, Finishing, Thinking God

Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.

- Johannes Kepler

topic: Thinking, Process, Thinking God

We often talk about how we are God's "hands and feet," which is true. That being said, we can't fall into the trap of thinking God needs us like we need Him. He's God - which makes the reality that He wants to use us and be in relationship with us an even sweeter, more profound truth.

- Mark Hart

topic: Fall, Thinking, Reality, Profound Truth, Thinking God