„I tell Ryan that God gave him a brother like Miles so that Ryan could learn that anything is possible and that he can be good at anything. And I tell Miles that God gave him Ryan so that Miles could learn patience and persistence and how to overcome challeges.“

„I tell god that he has been responsible enough. Without him it wouldn't have been possible. Thanks to him I could achieve these heights.“

—  S. H. Raza Indian artist 1922 - 2016

„For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16“

—  Christopher Hitchens British American author and journalist 1949 - 2011

„I thank God for all the people whom God sent into my life, the people who gave their best so that I could learn to give my best.“

—  Ben Carson 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon 1951

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 69

„We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.“

—  Stephen King, book The Green Mile

Variant: We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
Source: The Green Mile (1996)

„I learned that poets aren’t God, but if there is a God…or anything approaching a God…he’s a poet. And a failed one at that.“

—  Dan Simmons, book The Fall of Hyperion

Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 45 (p. 504)

„Oh God! I'm going to miss him. I can’t yet imagine life without him. But I guess with God’s help… I'll learn. I keep looking at the photo he gave me of himself, which says, 'To my true love Elizabeth, I love you forever.“

—  Elizabeth Taylor British-American actress 1932 - 2011

And, I will love HIM forever.
As quoted in "Michael Jackson: Elizabeth Taylor Honors her good friend" by Dave Karger, Entertainment Weekly (26 June 2009)

„Barzai knew so much of the gods that he could tell of their comings and goings, and guessed so many of their secrets that he was deemed half a god himself.“

—  H.P. Lovecraft American author 1890 - 1937

Fiction, The Other Gods (1921)

„God created man, and finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a female companion so that he might feel his solitude more acutely.“

—  Paul Valéry French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871 - 1945

Tel Quel (1943)

„All I ask for the negro is that if you not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little let him enjoy.“

—  Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865

Speech in Springfield, Illinois https://cwcrossroads.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/race-and-slavery-north-and-south-some-logical-fallacies/#comment-47553 (17 July 1858)
1850s

„I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.“

—  Galileo Galilei Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer 1564 - 1642

As quoted in The Story of Civilization : The Age of Reason Begins, 1558-1648 (1935) by Will Durant, p. 605
Attributed

„The Christians gave Him Sunday, the Jews gave Him Saturday, and the Muslims gave Him Friday. God has a three-day weekend.“

—  George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008

„He gave us eyes to see them,
And lips that we might tell
How great is God Almighty,
Who has made all things well.“

—  Cecil Frances Alexander British hymn-writer and poet 1818 - 1895

Hymn: All things bright and beautiful http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/a/l/allthing.htm

„The great Carlyle has said that the best gift God ever gave to man was an eye that could really see; I venture to add that an equally rare and not less important gift is the courage to tell what one sees.“

—  James A. Garfield American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881) 1831 - 1881

1880s

„A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one — not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.“

—  P. J. O'Rourke, book Republican Party Reptile

Republican Party Reptile (1987)

„If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.“

—  Neil Strauss, book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

Source: The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

„Though I hate him from my heart, and should rejoice at any calamity that could befall him, I'll leave him to God; and though I abhor my own life, I'll leave that, too, to Him that gave it.“

—  Anne Brontë, book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXVIII : The Injured Man; Lord Lowborough to Ralph

„How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.“

—  Marian Keyes Irish writer 1963

Source: The Other Side of the Story

„Just as seeing Heaven's light gave him an awareness of God's presence in all things in the mortal plane, so it has made him aware of God's absence in all things in Hell.“

—  Ted Chiang, book Stories of Your Life and Others

Hell Is the Absence of God; first appeared in Starlight 3, 2001.
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)

„I think for both of us, though, it was really refreshing because given that I didn’t know a lot about him, everything that I have learned about him, I learned through him as opposed to having grown up around different news stories or tabloids, whatever else. Anything I learned about him and his family was what he would share with me, and vice versa. So for both of us it was a very authentic and organic way to get to know each other.“

—  Meghan, Duchess of Sussex American former actress and member by marriage of the British royal family 1981

Engagement interview (November 2017)