Top 100 God Is Dead Quotes
#1. Give your false prophet a message for me. Tell him Jesus befriended the whores and the thieves and the sinners. Tell him his Old Testament God is dead. God doesn't punish the wicked and save the righteous. God is love.
Jennifer Bosworth
#2. Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed "God is Dead!" he forgot to add that Satan is also dead and we are free from all that antique tat.
Grant Morrison
#3. We know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.
Charles Bukowski
#4. Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness.
Simon Critchley
#5. But when Zarathustra was alone, he addressed his heart thus: "Can it really be possible? This old holy man in his forest still hasn't received any notice that God is dead!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. God is dead and I am his replacement.
J.D. Robb
#7. They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.
Sean Lennon
#9. Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we've got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead."
"He's not dead; just very tired.
Libba Bray
#10. God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. We have killed him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. There is only one way this can end: with the kind of defeat that makes a people feel that their preachers have lied to them, their leaders have deserted them, that the world is against them and that God is dead.
Ken MacLeod
#13. Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
Elias Canetti
#14. Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. God is dead! Only the IT department can help you now.
-Edward Smegger in Super, Girl! (p. 79)
MaryJanice Davidson
#16. If God is dead, Nietzsche is perhaps the person who stumbles across the corpse; nevertheless, it is Kant whose fingerprints are all over the murder weapon.
Will Buckingham
#17. The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.
Karl Barth
#18. God is dead, the God of love, of gentleness and consolation, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had, under the watchful gaze of this child, vanished forever into the smoke of the human holocaust demanded by the Race, the most voracious of all idols. And
Elie Wiesel
#19. If god is dead, who's going to fix this mess?
Satoshi Kon
#20. PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say
I say
God is dead!
Arthur Miller
#21. God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
Eugene Ionesco
#22. God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.
Charles Colson
#23. Nietzsche is at the base of you all. Within you God is dead, only the ego is alive. And remember, they cannot both exist together.
Osho
#24. If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#25. Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that GOD IS DEAD!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
Erich Fromm
#27. God is DEAD, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!
Trent Reznor
#29. When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "
as near as I can figure out, God is dead."
Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick.
Philip K. Dick
#30. We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.
A. N. Wilson
#31. If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.
George MacDonald
#32. Men to whom God is dead worship one another.
Harry Crews
#33. God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.
Penn Jillette
#35. Thus spoke the devil to me, once on a time: "Even God has his hell: it is his love for man". And lately did I hear him say these words: "God is dead: of his pity for man has God died".
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. Nietzsche says God is dead. Probably now God says Nietzsche is dead! The one that will die is religion, not the God! God will always live!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. God is dead, haven't you heard, he died a hundred years ago, gave out
from sheer lack of interest, decided to play golf instead.
Janet Fitch
#38. Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
Gabriel Vahanian
#39. How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.
Anne Rice
#40. Since you act as though God is dead, I wanted to join you in the mourning.
The reply of Martin Luther's wife, in full funeral regalia, in trying to illustrate the folly of his depressed state.
Mark Driscoll
#41. What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet
#42. When God is dead, kindness is permitted. When God is dead, kindness is all that people have.
Adam Phillips
#43. Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too, decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. Thus spoke the devil to me once: "God too has his hell: it is his love of man." ... And most recently I heard him speak this word: "God is dead: God died of his pity for man." - On the Pitying
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. Mr. Durukan, if God is dead then everything is conspiracy.
Ian McDonald
#47. A shit show is chaos as religion, because "God is dead." A shit show all by itself is usually a crime. A shit show when put on paper or to music, is no longer whirling, twirling chaos. Then it's art. We can take it on the road, and we can travel with it. Have shit show, will travel.
Fiona Helmsley
#48. This is why it is often called sovereign grace: it raises the dead. The dead do not raise themselves. God does by his grace. And it is this "glorious grace" that will be praised for all eternity.
John Piper
#49. Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears his signature.
Charles J. Chaput
#50. God-ordained dreams aren't just born. They are reborn. If they become more important to you than God, you have to sacrifice them for the sake of your soul. You have to put them on the altar and raise the knife. And once the dream is dead and buried, it can be resurrected for God's glory.
Mark Batterson
#51. G Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! h According to his great mercy, i he has caused us to be born again to a living hope j through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4. to k an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and l unfading, m kept in heaven for you,
Anonymous
#52. Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.
Billy Graham
#53. God is not dead-He is merely unemployed ...
Walt Kelly
#54. The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
Ken Kesey
#55. For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. ROMANS 10:9-10
Francine Rivers
#56. Commander I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ and because I do I can say this. Private Santiago is dead and that is a tragedy. But he is dead because he had no code. He is dead because he had no honor. And God was watching.
Kiefer Sutherland
#57. God is not dead. Now, as ever, he liveth.
C. G. Jung
#58. To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead ... seek God within your own soul.
John Smith
#59. In our era, just as in every transitional age, God seems dead, but it is really our Enlightenment culture that has died.
Robert Inchausti
#60. The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about God.
Emil Cioran
#61. It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human beings in the world, and God knows how many millions of people long dead who have been lost to history, all of whom were probably special to someone.
Louis De Bernieres
#62. The only law that means anything - that can have anything to do with God - is one that is alive and that strives for justice given the circumstances of the present. Otherwise, the law is merely something dead, a weapon in the hands of those with power. Against those with none.
Nafisa Haji
#63. The gospel, in the New Testament, is the good news that God (the world's creator) is at last becoming king and that Jesus, whom this God raised from the dead, is the world's true lord.
N. T. Wright
#64. Then why haven't you killed yourself? (Astrid)
Why should I? The only enjoyment I have in my life is knowing I piss off everyone around me. If I were dead, it would make them all happy. God forbid I should ever do that. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#65. I mean, what
What if no one's watching
What if when we're dead
We are just dead
I mean, what
What if it's just us down here
What if God is just an idea
Someone put in your head
Ani DiFranco
#66. That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9
Anonymous
#67. Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.
Graham Kendrick
#68. I am a spiritual being. After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot, rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ. I choose self-control.
Max Lucado
#69. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.
John Piper
#70. KING HENRY VI:
Would I were dead, if God's good will were so;
For what is in this world but grief and woe?
William Shakespeare
#71. Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.
Will Carleton
#72. If our spiritually dead ones are to be raised, we must first get power with God. The reason we so often fail in moving our fellowmen is that we try to win them without first getting power with God. Jesus was in communion with His Father, and so He could be assured that His prayers were heard. We
D.L. Moody
#73. Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
O.J. Simpson
#74. Am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? 27He is not God of the dead, but of the living.
Anonymous
#75. They valued themselves. Once, they knew God valued them. Then they began to think there was no God, only blind forces. So they valued themselves, they loved themselves and attended to their natures -
A.S. Byatt
#76. For I tell you this: one loving, blind desire for God alone is more valuable in itself, more pleasing to God and to the saints, more beneficial to your own growth, and more helpful to your friends, both living and dead, than anything else you could do.
Anonymous
#77. If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
I. F. Stone
#78. In a lot of minds, God is big enough to raise dead people, but He's not big enough to deal with our running.
Jason Upton
#79. To slay the sinner is then the first use of the Law, to destroy the life and strength wherein he trusts and convince him that he is dead while he lives; not only under the sentence of death, but actually dead to God, void of all spiritual life, dead in trespasses and sins.
John Wesley
#80. Years ago, a group of good, wise, brave, God-fearing men stood up to claim and defend the human right for independence. Those men are now dead. Their work is not. If good, wise, brave, God-fearing men fail to stand up in their stead, that independence will cease to exist.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#81. 65It is God who sends water down from the sky and with it revives the earth when it is dead. There truly is a sign in this for people who listen.
Anonymous
#83. Once we've tasted being alive, we can't go back to being dead. Aliveness in God is addictive.
Nancy Groom
#84. Our job if you will, is to roll the stone away. God's job is to raise the dead.
Ken Ham
#85. Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.
He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead.
He who loves corruption rots.
He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow.
He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing.
Thomas Merton
#86. A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree. PROVERBS 11:28
Rick Warren
#87. Most of the contexts are life and death, by the way, and God is your only hope. Your ezer. If he is not there beside you ... you are dead. A better translation therefore of ezer would be "lifesaver." Kenegdo means alongside, or opposite to, a counterpart.
John Eldredge
#88. Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognizes one law - the law of that which is to be.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#89. God is a man of such perfect, flawless character that he only watches over everyone equally
the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor
and never plays favorites or reaches His hand out to any of them. Oh, what a wonderful God. He can just drop dead.
Yukako Kabei
#90. Crap.
It's all crap.
Living is crap.
Life has no meaning.
None. Nowhere to be found.
Crap.
Why doesn't anybody realize this?
K-Ske Hasegawa
#91. We must teach plainly that the faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a faith which operates with purifying effect upon our entire nature, and produces in us fruits of righteousness to the praise and glory of God.
Charles Spurgeon
#92. Faith without any actions in accordance with God's will is a dead faith
Sunday Adelaja
#93. Then I wondered if that's all God ever is
somebody who loves you enough to come back from the dead to visit every now and again. Or if that's all that other people ever are
different faces of God walking around.
Sheri Reynolds
#94. Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing-
if it is only yours it won't wake the dead,
it will simply disturb the neighbours.
W. Ian Thomas
#95. (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Anonymous
#96. I am not functioning very well. Living with the knowledge that the baby is dead is painful. I feel so far away from you, God. I can only try to believe that you are sustaining me and guiding me through this. Please continue to stand by my side.
Christine O'Keeffe Lafser
#97. All monsters are queers. Who is able to bring the dead back to life? God and the Devil. The Devil makes dead men into monsters: immortal, immoral - and queer.
Derek McCormack
#99. I remember, my mom, she's lived in Spain for about thirty years, and we were playing the Royal Albert Hall, and she was with some friends from New York. Morrissey came out with the sign 'The Queen is Dead,' and my mom's friends are like, 'Oh my God.' They took it literally.
Andy Rourke
#100. Am I supposed to feel so much awe and so on about the Godking? After all, he's just a man ... He's about fifty years old, and he's bald. And I'll bet he has to cut his toenails too like any other man. I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is, he'll be much godlier after he's dead.
Ursula K. Le Guin
