Ogden Nash Quotes

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

God made man because he loved to listen to stories.

Reason, in fact, is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason.

If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we are distinct from nature, just as He is.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?

God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all.

Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.

Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn.

God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.