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The Times Great Quotations: Famous quotes to inform, motivate and inspire

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2018
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Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist (1879–1955)



I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

The Color Purple (1985)

Alice Walker, American writer and activist (1944–)



In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

The Bible

Genesis 1:2



God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

The Ghost in the Machine (1967)

Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-British writer (1905–1983)



My dear child, you must believe in God in spite of what the clergy tell you.

Benjamin Jowett, English educator and theologian (1817–1893)



I cannot forgive Descartes; in all his philosophy he did his best to dispense with God. But he could not avoid making Him set the world in motion with a flick of His finger; after that he had no more use for God.

Pensеes (1670)

Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (1623–1662)



In all important questions, man has learned to cope without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

[Letter to a friend, 1944]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian (1906–1945)



By Night an Atheist half believes a God.

Night-Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality (1742–1745)

Edward Young, English poet (1683–1765)



God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in’t.

Aurora Leigh (1857)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (1806–1861)



So many gods, so many creeds,

So many paths that wind and wind,

While just the art of being kind

Is all the sad world needs.

The World’s Need (1917)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American writer and poet (1850–1919)



God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

Empedocles, Greek philosopher (495–444 BC)

CHALLENGE AND TENACITY (#ulink_29cb3e7d-55b8-5152-b1f3-88a8b1d0e4d1)

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

The Transcendent Function (1916)

Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875–1961)



No easy problems ever come to the president of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.

Parade Magazine (1962)

Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th president of the US (1890–1969)
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