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Quotes About Monotheism

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
~ James Hillman
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.
~ Benjamin Stillingfleet
Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism
~ Ibn Warraq
There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.
~ Saddam Hussein
A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
All gods are one god.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.
~ Feisal Abdul Rauf
Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!
~ William Ross Wallace
O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.
~ Abdelkader El Djezairi
Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
~ Karen Armstrong
Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!
~ William Ross Wallace
If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.
~ Stephen Fry
If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.
~ Leo Strauss
But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.
~ Leo Strauss
Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two?
~ Arthur Hugh Clough
Burn? Smite? Punish? Why is your god so intolerant? So jealous? Why must there be only one god? Why is there not room for many?
~ Brom
How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!
~ William Rounseville Alger
We believe in one God. We believe Muhammad is the Apostle of God.
~ Malcolm X
In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme being, the one and only head god, a habit lent to them by monotheism.
~ Paula Gunn Allen
Mohammedans say there is only one God and only one prophet of God, that is Muhammad. Then God seems to be very poor - just ONE prophet?
~ Rajneesh
It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.
~ Eric Hoffer
Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of one God in an abstract philosophical way.
~ Frank Moore Cross
I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.
~ Ishmael Beah