GOD QUOTES XII

quotations about God

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

ANNE LAMOTT

Bird by Bird

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The way to God is by our selves.

PHINEAS FLETCHER

The Purple Island

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Most sermons sound to me like commercials -- but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Neurotic's Notebook


The God of the Old Testament did not distance Himself from His chosen people; He participated in their struggles and made Israel's enemies His own. Israel's own transgressions grieved Him and incited Him to a terrible wrath. Ours is no aloof Lord--no Buddha beyond it all or Zeus making light of mortal travail. Among the world religions Christianity is unique in presenting a suffering God, a God who took human suffering upon Himself and in His agony gave birth to mankind's salvation.

JOHN UPDIKE

In the Beauty of the Lilies


God never made his work for man to mend.

JOHN DRYDEN

Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton, 1700

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Where there is most of God, there is least of self.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom


God appears and god is light
To those poor souls who dwell in night
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Auguries of Innocence


If God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty -- by ceasing to exist.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

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The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves. The Stoic, the Platonist, and the Epicurean, the Polytheist, the Dualist, and the Trinitarian, differ infinitely in their conceptions of its meaning. They agree only in considering it the most awful and most venerable of names, as a common term devised to express all of mystery, or majesty, or power, which the invisible world contains. And not only has every sect distinct conceptions of the application of this name, but scarcely two individuals of the same sect, who exercise in any degree the freedom of their judgment, or yield themselves with any candour of feeling to the influences of the visible world, find perfect coincidence of opinion to exist between them.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

"Essay on Christianity"


'Twas only fear first in the world made gods.

BEN JONSON

Sejanus


God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

The Shack


God's commandments are the iron door into himself. To keep them is to have it opened and his great heart of love revealed.

SAMUEL WILLOUGHBY DUFFIELD

Fragments


Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long


How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in his divine system of creation?

JOSEPH HELLER

Catch 22


Being God isn't easy. If you do too much, people get dependent on you. And if you do nothing, they lose hope. You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket.

GOD

Futurama


I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.

CLAY AIKEN

Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life


We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

RICHARD DAWKINS

attributed, The Root of All Evil


A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.

PHILIP YANCEY

Where Is God When It Hurts?


God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars--
If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them
Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears.

ROBINSON JEFFERS

"The Inhumanist"

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