Samuel Butler God Quotations

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence

Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.