“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”– William Makepeace Thackeray Related Quotes “God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.”– Ayn Rand “Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”– Blaise Pascal “When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.”– Dick Gregory