Sam Levenson Quotes

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

The minister and the priest teach that the organization is greater. No great philosophy has ever come from an organization, but from an individual whose research has been a personal study of God and ITS ways.

God is in the details.

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.

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

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

You're a song written by the hands of God.

I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.