Lactantius Quotes

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

If somebody postulates the existence of more than one god, I would have to say we don't worship the same god. If somebody says that God is basically one with the world, I would also have to say we don't worship the same god.

The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

Everybody has a different definition of God. When people say, 'Do you believe?' I think they mean the Christian God. There are a lot of gods, so I think they cancel each other out.

Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.

Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me.

Did God create man, or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.

God is great.

Unlike many deities of the ancient Near East, the God of Israel shared his power with no female divinity, nor was he the divine husband or lover of any.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

What is the origin of God?

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.

The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.

It is now widely believed that God is a conservative.

Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy.

Though we are not Almighty God Himself, nevertheless, we are now divine.