Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
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
God has no religion.
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
-Albert Camus
"Notebooks 1951-1959"
Life is like a book with three chapters. Two are already written by God - Birth and Death. The chapter in the middle is empty; fill it with your smile, love and faith.
God provideth every one with his daily food; why, O man, art thou immersed planning; He putteth their food even before the insects which He created in rocks and stones.
The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.
-Annie Dillard
"Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters"
God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from an artist.
-George Bernard Shaw
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.