Quotes
Quotes about God
What in God's name is the difference between a language and a dialect? I'll tell you. A language waves flags and is blown up by politicians. A dialect keeps to things, things, things, street smells and street noises, life
My whole world's shattered ... I have to build it up again, searching for a God I can believe in
It's life, God help us. It's something to tell your grandchildren
Change, change. They have to have change, no matter how strange or bizzare. But why can't God and his angels let things stay as they are?
I pray in all positions, God has no interest in our physical postures
Why did God allow evil to exist? A question not to be asked. Without evil there could be no freedom of choice
God gave his creatures the most tremendous endowment, the thing most like his own essence - I mean freedom of choice. If he knows in advance what his creatures are going to do, then he's denying them freedom. So he deliberately blacks out foreknowledge. God could know, if he wished, but out of respect and love for his creatures, he refuses to know. Can you imagine a more awesome gift than this - God denying himself out of sheer love?
The soul in hell is ... a soul at last aware that truth and beauty and goodness, as expressed in what we may call the personality of God, go on existing but quite beyond the hope of that soul's being able to get at them. The condemned soul knows what it wants, but it can't have what it wants. That's hell
There are certain things that God can't do. He can't not be God, for instance. As a creator he has no power of destruction. He can't even destroy a human soul. He can only make it suffer eternally
That man does not properly understand the nature of sin, thanks to the blinding power of the devil, in no way mitigates the horror of the impact of sin on the pure radience of God
Hell is an emanation of God's justice. But we believe that his love is greater than his justice. Hell has to exist ... but there may be nobody in it
God gives us free will - we use it or we abuse it
May one say that God is a laughing God and dearly loves a jest?
I love him because he is a human soul, and I regret that his pure humanity, which issued from the hand of a God in whom he does not believe, has been so foully sullied by the devils of greed and power which have clearly taken possession of him. I would like to purge him of those devils, but, in his perversity, he is happy to be possessed.
By God, the book was ready except for the writing of it
God alone knew from what suppurating primordial dung heap man had arisen
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
"Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."
[Y]our destiny is a secret between yourself and God, just as love is a secret between two hearts.
God is REAL, unless explicitly declared INTEGER.
God gives burdens; also shoulders.
Let's hope God grades on a curve.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
God's last name is not "Dammit".
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet tired of the man.
