All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “God”

“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”
“Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.”
“I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.”
“God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.”
“Man proposes, but God blocks the game.”
“God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.”
“If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."”
“God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.”
“No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.”
“There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.”
“The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.”
“None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.”
“All gods are better than their reputation.”
“God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.”

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