The Gods gave a microbe a drop of water, and in it he lived. They gave an ant a half acre of land, and he prospered. They gave a tiger the forest and he formed an empire and became an emperor. They gave man the Universe and all the knowledge therein. He entered of his own free will the dungeon of Dogma, shut his mind to truth and slew and starved his brothers.
The gods and demons were rivals of each other. The demons, swollen with pride, said, “In what, pray, should we place the oblation?” And they proceeded to place it in their own mouths.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
-Salman Rushdie
"The Satanic Verses"
God enters by a private door into every individual.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.
-Cassandra Clare
"City of Bones"
God Himself told me that the most basic and central truth of the universe is that God is the Father and we are His children. We are all created as children of God.
God loveth those who are pure. No one is more loved than one of purity and immaculate cleanliness.
Christ was crucified once, but his teachings suffer crucifixion every day at the hands of men of limited vision. Christ’s teachings cannot be understood just by reading the Bible…but by living and trying out in everyday life the principles taught in the book.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
-Socrates
On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.
-Terry Pratchett
"The Color of Magic"
