“They wanted them to look like the Gods.
God doesn't look like this.”
James Rollins (1961) American writer
Source: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
“Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.”
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“A man knocking on the door of a brothel is looking for God.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
The source is actually a 1945 book by Bruce Marshall, The World, The Flesh, and Father Smith, in which he says, "...the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God."
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“I looked and looked but I didn't see God.”
Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968) Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, the first human in space
As quoted in To Rise from Earth (1996) by Wayne Lee; some websites quote him as saying "I looked and looked and looked but I didn't see God." on 14 April 1961, a couple days after his historic flight, but the authenticity of such statements have been disputed; Colonel Valentin Petrov stated in 2006 http://www.interfax-religion.ru/orthodoxy/?act=interview&div=73&domain=1 that the cosmonaut never said such words, and that the quote originated from Nikita Khrushchev's speech at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU about the state's anti-religion campaign, saying "Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there." Gagarin himself was a member of the Russian Orthodox Church. <br class="br">As quoted in What's Missing Inside You? (2006) by Paul Schlieker, p. 17 <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: No I didn't see God. I looked and looked but I didn't see God.
“It’s about rejecting a god who looks like the ruling class.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
The Humanist interview (2012)
Context: If it were up to me, I would not define myself by the absence of something; "theist" is a believer, so with "atheist" you’re defining yourself by the absence of something. I think human beings work on yes, not on no. … humanist is a great term. …except that humanism sometimes is not seen as inclusive of spirituality. To me, spirituality is the opposite of religion. It’s the belief that all living things share some value. So I would include the word spiritual just because it feels more inclusive to me. Native Americans do this when they offer thanks to Mother Earth and praise the interconnectedness of “the two-legged and the four, the feathered and the clawed,” and so on. It’s lovely. … because it’s not about not believing. It’s about rejecting a god who looks like the ruling class.
“For God's sake, sit down. You look like a Calvinist rector telling his flock about Hell.”
Paul Bowles book Let It Come Down
Source: Let It Come Down (1952), p. 231
“At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
“Oh my god you're thicker than you look”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: The Faceless Ones
“Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.”
Victor J. Stenger book God: The Failed Hypothesis
Source: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.128-129
Context: We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that requires a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the event... Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.