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God Quotes


"The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth."


"From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people."


"I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God."


"Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone."


"I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother."


"Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not."
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"We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful."


"I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found."
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"God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays."


"The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God."


"Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese."


"If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along."


"The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs."


"And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing."


"Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet."


"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."


"Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each."


"I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative."


"I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself."


"I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God."



"I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions."


"This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost."


"God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart."


"The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived."


"God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers."



"The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God."


"The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church."


"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be."
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