„He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.“

„I don’t know...but then, if God had intended Man to think, He would have given him brains, I suppose.“

—  Algis Budrys, kniha Michaelmas

Zdroj: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 10 (p. 163)

„A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.“

—  Larry Bird basketball player and coach 1956

„Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.“

—  John Banville, The Sea

Zdroj: The Sea

„If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.“

—  Howard Zinn author and historian 1922 - 2010

„God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.“

—  Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963

„If God wanted us to fly, he would have given us tickets. “

—  Mel Brooks American director, writer, actor, and producer 1926

„Had God Himself intended women to be inferior, He would have ordained it so that mothers would have given birth to daughters at the end of the fifth month of pregnancy. The supply of mother’s milk would naturally have been half of that in case of a son. But that is not the case. How can it be? Is not God just and most merciful?“

—  Begum Rokeya Bengali feminist writer and social worker 1880 - 1932

On God Gives, Man Robs , 1927. http://archive.thedailystar.net/magazine/2005/07/05/reflections.htm

„The idea of God that I absorbed was that it would be wonderful if He existed: We needed Him desperately but had not seen Him in many thousands of years.“

—  Edward Teller Hungarian-American nuclear physicist 1908 - 2003

Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And Politics., (2002) by Edward Teller, Basic Books, p. 32.
Kontext: Religion was not an issue in my family; indeed, it was never discussed. My only religious training came because the Minta required that all students take classes in their respective religions. My family celebrated one holiday, the Day of Atonement, when we all fasted. Yet my father said prayers for his parents on Saturdays and on all the Jewish holidays. The idea of God that I absorbed was that it would be wonderful if He existed: We needed Him desperately but had not seen Him in many thousands of years.

„If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning… Face it, friend. He is crazy about you!“

—  Max Lucado American clergyman and writer 1955

„Master Kingston, I see the matter against me now it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the King He would not have given me over in my gray hairs.“

—  Thomas Wolsey English political figure and cardinal 1473 - 1530

To the messenger summoning him to see Henry VIII. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/ThomasWolsey(Cardinal).htm.

„If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.“

—  Dave Barry American writer 1947

„If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.“

—  Ludwig Wittgenstein, kniha Philosophical Investigations

Pt II, p. 217
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

„If God had wanted me to lose weight he would have made sure there was creamed spinach for dessert.“

—  Janet Evanovich, kniha Ten Big Ones

Zdroj: Ten Big Ones

„"From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people." [20]“

—  Howard Dean American political activist 1948

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„If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.“

—  Gabriel García Márquez Colombian writer 1927 - 2014

„Now it was all behind him — but by God, he did not, he would not regret it. He had taken the only way, and if it had pleased Fate to sport cruelly with him, that was no fault of his. He had sacrificed one loyalty to a more urgent, and with the thought bitterness went out of his soul. […] Tragedy had ensued, but the endeavour had been honest. He saw the ironic pattern of life spread out beneath him, as a man views a campaign from a mountain, and he came near to laughter — laughter with an undertone of tears.“

—  John Buchan British politician 1875 - 1940

Zdroj: Midwinter (1923), Ch. XVIII

„Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom;
Not made him wander, but continued him home.“

—  John Cleveland English poet 1613 - 1658

The Rebel Scot (1647).

„If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.“

—  Zig Ziglar American motivational speaker 1926 - 2012

„Mrs. Ape's famous hymn, There ain't no flies on the Lamb of God.“

—  Evelyn Waugh, kniha Vile Bodies

Zdroj: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1