All Quotes By Tag: God

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”

“God’s Final Message to His Creation:’We apologize for the inconvenience.”

“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”

“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.After that I liked jazz music.Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”

“The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.”

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”

“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”

“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”

“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.”

“The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.”

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil – that takes religion.”

“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”

“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”

“Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.”