„TUURI: Let not evermore, / let the gods celebrate / with mortal people! / The gods have long festivals, / man's life is fleeting, / swift as a wheel's turn …“

„God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image."“

—  Douglas William Jerrold English dramatist and writer 1803 - 1857

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 257.

„Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.“

—  Johann Kaspar Lavater Swiss poet 1741 - 1801

No. 398
Aphorisms on Man (c. 1788)

„The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.“

—  Robert Jordan American writer 1948 - 2007

Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)

„Let each man think himself an act of God,
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God;
And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds,
To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.“

—  Philip James Bailey, Festus

Proem
Festus (1839)

„Let's reinvent the gods, all the myths of the ages
Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests“

—  Jim Morrison lead singer of The Doors 1943 - 1971

An American Prayer (1978)

„Let God turn fear into faith. Instead of becoming a hesitant leader, ask God to make you bold and aggressive.“

—  Craig Groeschel American priest 1967

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„Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.“

—  Meister Eckhart German theologian 1260 - 1328

Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation (1941) by Raymond Bernard Blakney, p. 240

„Life is God's novel. Let him write it. “

—  Georg Büchner German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose 1813 - 1837

„Life is God's novel. Let him write it.“

—  Isaac Bashevis Singer Polish-born Jewish-American author 1902 - 1991

Quoted in Voices for Life (1975) edited by Dom Moraes

„Let go, and let God.“

—  Nikki Sixx American musician 1958

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„He may let go of God, but God does not let go of him.“

—  Karl Barth, book Church Dogmatics

2:2 <!-- p. 317 -->
Paraphrased variant: Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God … but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1998) by James Beasley Simpson.
Church Dogmatics (1932–1968)
Context: Man can certainly keep on lying (and he does so); but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel (he does so); but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God. He can certainly flee from God (he does so); but he cannot escape Him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God (he does and is so); but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in His hate. He can certainly give himself to isolation (he does so — he thinks, wills and behaves godlessly, and is godless); but even in his isolation he must demonstrate that which he wishes to controvert — the impossibility of playing the "individual" over against God. He may let go of God, but God does not let go of him.

„God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.“

—  William Mountford English Unitarian preacher and author 1816 - 1885

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 306.

„The Saviors of God celebrates life in the world.“

—  Ray Bradbury American writer 1920 - 2012

The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: Nikos Kazantzakis says, “Live forever.” That’s his social obligation. The Saviors of God celebrates life in the world. Any great work does that for you. All of Dickens says live life at the top of your energy.

„To experience and live out a harmony with the world, in a manner quite different from that of everyday life — this, we have said, is the meaning of "festival." But no more intense harmony with the world can be thought of than that of "Praise of God," the worship of the Creator of this world. Now, as I have often experienced, this statement is often received with a mixture of discomfort and various other feelings, but its truth cannot be denied. The most festive festival that can be celebrated is religious worship or "cult," and there is no festival that does not get its life from such worship or does not actually derive its origin from this. There is no worship "without the gods," whether it be mardi gras or a wedding.“

—  Josef Pieper German philosopher 1904 - 1997

Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, pp. 50–51

„What if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yes, let God be true, but every man a liar“

—  Paul of Tarsus, book Epistle to the Romans

Romans, 3:3-8 -
Epistle to the Romans
Context: What if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yes, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

„The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Now I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me.“

—  A.E. Housman English classical scholar and poet 1859 - 1936

No. 12, l. 1-4.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)

„Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient“

—  Norman Vincent Peale, book The Power of Positive Thinking

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

„People of Kommagini, let the glory of Antiochos,
the noble king, be celebrated as it deserves.“

—  Constantine P. Cavafy Greek poet 1863 - 1933

" Epitaph of Antiochos, King of Kommagini http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_115.htm" (1923) <!-- some of the ironies of the poem are lost with only this portion of it … but so it goes...-->
Context: People of Kommagini, let the glory of Antiochos,
the noble king, be celebrated as it deserves.
He was a provident ruler of the country.
He was just, wise, courageous.
In addition he was that best of all things, Hellenic —
mankind has no quality more precious:
everything beyond that belongs to the gods.

„Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas.“

—  Vernon Howard American writer 1918 - 1992

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