Divine Invention Quotes

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

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.

God is Man's greatest invention

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.