Quotes About Divine comedy

The notion of the Bible as literature, though particularly contaminated in English by its use as a rubric for superficial college courses and for dubious publishers' packages, is needlessly concessive and condescending toward literature in any language. (It would at the very least be gratuitous to speak of Dante as literature, given the assured literary status of Dante's great poem, though the Divine Comedy is more explicitly theological, or religious, than most of the Bible.)

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

People in the late first century, watching the Gospel of Luke performed, would be laughing. Try explaining, through hand motions, the angelic vision yourselves, and then try not to smile.

God exists. He has one wicked sense of humor, and right now he's having a grand old time punking the planet.

I don't exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

The Attack is a funny book which the reader has the option of taking seriously. For when the laughter subsides we realize that SK has set before us a stark either-or proposition: either follow the gospel according to Christ and the apostles, or follow the gospel according to the clergy. There can be no dialectical synthesis between these contraries.

And on the eighth day God said, "Okay, Murphy, you're in charge!"

Bobby Heenan is the single funniest man that God ever put on this earth.

The only thing that can be said with an absolute certainty by seeing the behaviour of a vast majority of the people on the Earth is that an invisible Almighty is a big lover of watching the comedy activity.

Around the hero everything becomes a tragedy; around the demigod everything becomes a satyr-play; and around God everything becomes — what? perhaps a 'world'?

Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punchline.

I fail to witness the gods' hilarity at leaving behind the human episode.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in Heaven.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

Alabado sea el señor de todas las plagas y secretas aflicciones! Si Dios se divirtió inventando los lirios del campo, seguro que se partió de risa con los parásitos de África.

The Bible, and virtually every major religion on earth, has a term for this practice. It's called "usury." In The Divine Comedy, Dante reserved a special place in the seventh circle of hell for people who charged usurious interest rates.

In The Divine Comedy, Dante reserved a special place in the seventh circle of hell for people who charged usurious interest rates.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.

Ha, ha —Job 39:25

God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.