Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

Roger Ebert

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

Virgil

• Man
• Desire

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

William Shakespeare

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Charlie Chaplin

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Plato

• Truth
• Beginning

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?

Friedrich Nietzsche

• Man

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Thomas Kempis

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Niccolo Machiavelli

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Miguel de Cervantes

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

Conscience is God present in man.

Victor Hugo

• Conscience
• Present

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

Aeschylus

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

• God

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Stephen Hawking

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Mark Twain

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Sophocles

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Euripides

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

Jeremy Irons