“If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.”
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Zig Ziglar 87
American motivational speaker 1926–2012Related quotes
“If God wanted us to fly, he would have given us tickets. ”
Quoted as an attribution in Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2013), p. 268
Attributed
“If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.”
The New York Times (30 June 1985)
“If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.”
Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century (1985)
"The voice of the lonely crowd" (2002)
Source: The Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11
Context: The 20th century, with its scores of millions of supernumerary dead, has been called the age of ideology. And the age of ideology, clearly, was a mere hiatus in the age of religion, which shows no sign of expiry. Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them. To be clear: an ideology is a belief system with an inadequate basis in reality; a religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
answered the divine Sara.
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 17.
“I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore.”
As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 206
Context: I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.