Pits v. James (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 124-125
“All things are but masks at God's beck and call,
They are symbols that instruct us that God is all.”
As translated by Raficq Abdulla
The Conference of the Birds (1177)
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Bless His Soul (credited to "The Jacksons")
Destiny (1977)
“God loves us all, and all of us are equal in God's sight.”
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 56
Variant translation: We conclude that God is known first through Nature, and then again, more particularly, by doctrine; by Nature in His works, and by doctrine in His revealed word.
Book I, Chapter XVIII.—Notwithstanding Their Conceits, the God of the Marcionites Fails in the Vouchers Both of Created Evidence and of Adequate Revelation.
This was quoted by Galileo in his defense of natural sciences.
Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615 https://people.bu.edu/dklepper/RN242/duchess.html
Against Marcion https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0312.htm
Original: (la) Digna enim deo probabunt deum. Nos definimus deum primo natura cognoscendum, deinde doctrina recognoscendum, natura ex operibus, doctrina ex praedicationibus.
“Let's reinvent the gods, all the myths of the ages
Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests”
An American Prayer (1978)
In "Gods", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 456.