Ah, but is there a better way to inflame the passions than to ask that age-old saying: Is there a God? Blessed are those who have never doubted the existence of God. Alas, the agnostic does what he does. S/He will be caught in the midst of wild debates between believers and atheists who are firm in their belief that there is no god. Be it politicians, great men, or the man in the street, where there are men, there is God. We all have an answer to the question: “Is there a God?”, and we are ready to defend our position.
My mother loved poetry and one of her favorite poems was “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer. Like Mom, he worshiped God’s creatures, he adored the beauty of trees. He laments in the last line of his poem: “Poems like fools become to me, but only God can make a tree.” Unlike Mom, I never cared much for poetry, but I love nature. I am interested in Joyce Kilmer’s poem since Codwise Avenue in my hometown was named to honor the man. Every time I tried to memorize it, except for the last line, I always had to look it up. Thus, I keep it in my quote collection book right next to a poem by E. Y. Harburg, from his book: “Who put the Iris in The Wizard of Oz”. It is answered to “Trees”, so it appropriately begins this list of sentences about God.
1) “But you see only fools like me can make a god who makes a tree.” E. Y. Harburg
2) “God created man in his own image, says the Bible; philosophers retrace the process: they make God in their own.” G. C. Lichtenberg
3) “What is it: is man but God’s error, or God but man’s error?” Friedrich Nietzsche
4) If God did not exist, he would have to be found. Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)
5) “If I were to choose a religion for myself, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.” Napoleon Bonaparte
6) “If there is a God, atheism seems to be less of an insult to him than to religion.” Edmund de Goncourt
7) “I don’t have evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I strongly suspect that He doesn’t because I don’t want to waste my time.” Isaac Asimov
8) “Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger ones bring us back to God.” Francis Bacon
9) “I’d rather live my life than if there is a God and die find out He is not; Albert Camus
10. I say to men, do not be curious about God. For I, who am curious about individuals, am not curious about God; Walt Whitman
11) “God enters each individual through a private door.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
12) “In the name of the Lord, stop your work for a while, look around you.” Leo Tolstoy
13) “The best place to find God is in the garden. You can dig him there.” George Bernard Shaw
14) “He will never lose an opportunity to see beauty, because beauty is God’s hand.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
15) “Where there is love, there is also God.” Mohandas Gandhi
16) “To love a man is to see the face of God.” Victor Hugo
17) “The best way to know God is to love a lot.” Vincent van Gogh
18) “The man-creature was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.” Marcus Tullius
19) “Trembling for the country, when I consider that God is just, so that his justice sleeps forever.” Thomas Jefferson
20) “I know that the Lord is always on the right hand. But my concern and prayers are constant, that I and this nation are on the Lord’s side.” Abraham Lincoln
21) “The true opinion of the American people is not that every man is equal to another man, but that every man is free to do what God has made, without hindrance.” Henry Ward Beecher
22) “No agnostic has ever burned or tortured a man or a pagan, a heretic or an unbeliever.” Daniel J. Boorstin
23) “Imagine the Creator as a humble comedian, and at the same time the world becomes explicable.” H. L. Menckenius
24) “God is clever, but not wicked.” Albert Einstein
Let me, my lord, be my joke to you, and let me have your great one. Robert Frost
Good Quotes about Writers:
“The blank page is God’s way of showing you how difficult it is to be God.” Francis Baer
“There is only one thing impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.” Marcus Tullius
Is there a God? I don’t have to answer that for you. I can only say this from conviction, it doesn’t matter if we are agnostic, atheist or have a firm belief in your religion: here comes the tsunami wave that we all ride. You can be me on that one!
