George Bernard Shaw - God Quotes

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My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God — nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?

George Bernard Shaw
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

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Science could stand a cruel and unjust god; for nature was full of suffering and injustice. But a disorderly [god] was impossible.

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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

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Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.... I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!

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Law is blind without counsel. The counsel men agree with is vain: it is only the echo of their own voices. A million echoes will not help you to rule righteously. But he who does not fear you and shews you the other side is a pearl of the greatest price. Slay me and you go blind to your damnation. The greatest of God's names is Counsellor; and when your Empire is dust and your name a byword among the nations the temples of the living God shall still ring with his praise as Wonderful! Counsellor! the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

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The national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty work.

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The captain is in his bunk, drinking bottled ditch-water; and the crew is gambling in the forecastle. She will strike and sink and split. Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favour of England because you were born in it?

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The kingdom of God is striving to come. The empire that looks back in terror shall give way to the kingdom that looks forward with hope. Terror drives men mad: hope and faith give them divine wisdom. The men whom you fill with fear will stick at no evil and perish in their sin: the men whom I fill with faith shall inherit the earth. I say to you Cast out fear. Speak no more vain things to me about the greatness of Rome. … You, standing for Rome, are the universal coward: I, standing for the kingdom of God, have braved everything, lost everything, and won an eternal crown.

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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

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The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with... the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

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What God hath joined together no man ever shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

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