God Told

Famous quotes containing the words god and/or told:

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
—Bible: Hebrew Genesis 1:29.

But in a later context, God told the disgraced Adam, “and thou shalt eat the herb of the field” (Genesis 3:18)