Call it wot ya will

For lack of a better name, call it the collective harmony of thought, God, Light, Mind, Prajapati, Jahveh, Brahman, Tao, Purusha, Nirvana, Zeus, Theos, The One, Shivea, Mother, Father, Hsin, Kokoro, En Sof, Haqq, Gottheit, Brahman, the Great Atheist in the Sky, etc., etc., etc....

I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

- Bop Hope

God is not dead. He is alive and autographing Bibles today at Brentano's.

- Graffito, New York, 1979

God's plan made a hopeful beginning,
But man spoiled his chances by sinning.
We trust that the story
Will end in God's glory,
But, at present, the other side's winning.

- Anon., New York Times Magazine, 1946

And how can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

- Woody Allen, Without Feathers, 1976

If there is a God, give me a sign!...See, I told you that the knlupt smflrt glpptnrr...

- Steve Martin, 'A Wild and Crazy Guy', record, 1978

If I believed in reincarnation, I'd come back as a sponge.

- Woody Allen

I was told that the Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very chic for an atheist.

- Bertrand Russell, 1968

What! You been keeping records on me? I wasn't so bad! How many times did I take the Lord's name in vain? One million and six? Jesus Ch...!

- Steve Martin, 'A Wild and Crazy Guy', record, 1978

Pete: Have you ever thought about death? Do you realize that we each must die?
Dud: Of course we must die, but not yet. It's only half past four of a Wednesday afternoon.
Pete: No one knows when God in His Almighty Wisdom will choose to vouchsafe His precious gift of Death.
Dud: Granted. But chances are He won't be making a pounce at this time of day.

- Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, The Dagenham Dialogues, 1971
- The Penguin Book of Modern Humourous Quotations, Viking, 1986

Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

- Robert Pirsig

I would put it another way: people had insight in the past about a form of intelligence that organizes the universe and they personalized it and called it God." - David Bohm (w.edit)

Why do you look for God up there? He is here! Here!

- Abd-ul-Jabbar Niffari

ascend

May 1st, 1996

Pirsig and Bohm added May 11, 1996