Quotes About God

Gods, my gods! How sad the earth is at eventide! How mysterious are the mists over the swamps. Anyone who has wandered in these mists, who has suffered a great deal before death, or flown above the earth, bearing a burden beyond his strength knows this. Someone who is exhausted knows this. And without regret he forsakes the mists of the earth, its swamps and rivers, and sinks into the arms of death with a light heart knowing that death alone . . .

There isn't a single eastern religion," said Berlioz, "in which, as a rule, a chaste virgin doesn't give birth to a god. And without inventing anything new, in exactly the same way, the Christians created their Jesus, who in reality never actually lived. And it's on that the main emphasis needs to be put...

The night flowed on. During its second half the whole arc of the sky, the curtain that God had drawn across the world, was covered with stars.

Thou art a black God! I curse Thee, God of thieves, their soul and protector! (191)

No, I'm not Byron, it's my role To be an undiscovered wonder, Like him, a persecuted wand'rer, But furnished with a Russian soul. I started sooner, sooner ending, My mind will never reach so high; Within my soul, beyond the mending, My shattered aspirations lie: Dark ocean answer me, can any Plumb all your depth with skillful trawl? Who will explain me to the many? I... perhaps God? No one at all?

The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.

He suddenly recalled the famous myth from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.

The churches failed to realize that the working-class movement was the movement of the humiliated and oppressed supplicating for justice. They did not choose to work with and for them to create the kingdom of God on earth. By siding with the oppressors, they deprived the working-class movement of God. And now they reproach it for being godless. The Pharisees!

He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil. Since God gave man freedom, we can, if need be, accept the idea that He is not responsible for man's crimes. The responsibility for shit, however, rests entirely with Him, the Creator of Man.

Suicide is worse than murder. One can murder for vengeance or out of greed, but even greed is the expression of a perverted love of life. But to commit suicide is to throw one's life down contemptuously at God's feet

The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and other creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.

Murder simply hastens a bit what God will eventually see to on His own.

I know you're quiet a workman on God's eternal construction site and don't like hearing about demolition, but what can I do? Myself, I'm not one of God's bricklayers. Besides, if God's bricklayers built real walls, I doubt we'd be able to demolish them. But instead of walls all I see is stage sets. And stage sets are made to be demolished.

Como su mujer lo es todo para usted, las demás mujeres no son nada o, dicho de otro modo, son para usted unas putas. Y eso es una gran blasfemia y una gran falta de repeto hacia unas criaturas que han sido creadas por Dios. Querido amigo, ese tipo de amor es una herejía.

Non esiste alcuna certezza che Dio abbia affidato davvero all'uomo il dominio sulle altre creature. E' invece più probabile che l'uomo si sia inventato Dio per santificare il dominio che egli ha usurpato sulla mucca o sul cavallo

Frequent mists swirling across the countryside drifted between me and the populated land, so that the world was as it was on the fifth day of creation, when God was still undecided whether he should hand it over to Man.

Dios les dio a los hombres la libertad y por eso podemos suponer que al fina y al cabo no es responsable de los crímenes humanos. Pero el único responsable de la mierda es aquel que creó al hombre.

Sin ningún tipo de preparación teológica, espontáneamente, comprendí desde niño la incompatibilidad entre la mierda y Dios y, de ahí, cuán dudosa resulta la tesis básica de la antropología cristiana según la cual el hombre fue creado a imagen y semejanza de Dios. Una de dos: o el hombre fue creado a semejanza de Dios y entonces Dios tiene tripas, o Dios no tiene tripas y entonces el hombre no se le parece

The source of joy is within yourself. Unless and until you seek yourself you cannot seek God.

Without holiness you cannot talk of God.

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon that God has given us.

Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience.