God Quotes
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"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?"and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."
"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
"God has no religion."
"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC"
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."
"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods."
"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."
"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something."
"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."
"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
"Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves."
"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time."
"I talk to God but the sky is empty."
"God save us from people who mean well."
"I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side."
"She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me."Be careful seaweed brain."She said putting on her invisible cap and disappearing.I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came."
"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."
"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!"
"Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do."
"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
"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."
"He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly."
"God is silent. Now if only man would shut up."
"Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water."
"The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not."
"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?"
"I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist."
"Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?""I give.""You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog."
"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."
"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."
"But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through."
"Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him."
"If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood."
"God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh."
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