God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
Voltaire

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Voltaire

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Voltaire

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Voltaire

I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Voltaire

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Voltaire

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
Voltaire

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine