I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

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In spite of the way many people are turning away from God, not for other gods, but for no god; in sp...
EVA BURROWS

God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us....
DEYTH BANGER

After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

In this awful mess of Baghdad thank God there is one bright light anyway.
BRUCE KENT

Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER

There are innumerable definitions of God, because His manifestations are innumerable.
MAHATMA GANDHI

Traditional Christians cannot conceive of God as Mormons do: a God who has a wife, who invites other...
MEIR SOLOVEICHIK There are times on Earth when extraordinary consciousness invades everyday life. There are times on ...
JACOB NORDBY And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the gl...
JAMEY JOHNSON

I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank...
JALINA MHYANA During this period of his life, Burroughs was seeking a physical utopia, a place where he could live...
GREG A. MULLINS Pure consciousness expresses itself in millions of different forms but the root of consciousness is ...
CHRISTOPHER DINES

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human fo...
GURU NANAK

He is the only God man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods—the gods of human manufactu...
BRENNAN MANNING

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Gre...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

If there is a divine being who made everything, including us, what would our experiences with this b...
ROB BELL There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Throughout the history of man, there has been a constant struggle between the forces of light and th...
CLANCY BROWN The God should grant whatever the human beings wish, because as he has mess up the universe, so huma...
DR HITESH C SHETH

All I'm saying is, is God the god who we look to for comfort during tragedies? Is he the god who...
BENJAMIN WATSON Perry has made an awful mess of things and has proven he can't even lead a silent prayer. If we're g...
CHRIS BELL

To make the State your god is to worship an idol, for the State is a man-made creation arising natur...
EDEN PHILLPOTTS It was a lot easier as I went on. My nerves were awful. Thank God I pulled through.
ERIN SMITH

We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic...
ANNE LAMOTT

And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human being...
MARK HADDON

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judai...
KEITH ELLISON I think we got a little out of control there when they made their big run. We got a little timid, wo...
COURTNEY WATKINS

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will recei...
MARTIN LUTHER Jumbled appeared the messages,
Nothing was sure or clear;
Till I fell in love with Him- NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA

It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greate...
HAROLD PINTER A man actually has two Gods. The one, created him and the other, he created. Nature is not the first...
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN It is by God's grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured. Therefore, we seek to honor God...
DAVID GREEN

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the e...
JON MEACHAM

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I cal...
JA RULE God made them? You think God made them? Did God call White Flower Farm and order the bulbs? Did God ...
PHYLLIS ROSE The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU Oh God, I just kissed a vampire!"

Oh Gods, I just kissed a human!
SHERRILYN KENYON I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. Th...
SAMANTHA MORTON I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? F...
SUN MYUNG MOON If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.
ALAN MOORE If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect int...
MAX BORN If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect int...
MAX BORN For some, the belief in a Young Earth seems to be based on a kind of intuition or faith in what they...
NORMAN GEISLER And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which w...
BIBLE O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the ange...
JOSEPH ALLEINE I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.
REGINALD MAUDLING There are no limitations to the children of God who desire to establish God’s righteousness on thi...
SUNDAY ADELAJA There is a crack in everything God has made.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any...
RAJNEESH Regardless of what you are going through, God has a solution
SUNDAY ADELAJA There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a par...
STEVE LACY If I believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God - and I believe that there is one, mayb...
MARILYN MANSON If there is a Creator-God, it has used methods of creation that are indistinguishable from nature, i...
DAVID G. MCAFEE I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greate...
HAROLD PINTER I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are t...
PETER SINGER When men make gods, there is no God!
EUGENE O'NEILL When men make gods, there is no God
EUGENE O'NEILL When men make gods, there is no God!
EUGENE O'NEILL There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external f...
LEO BUSCAGLIA There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external f...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is materi...
EDGAR MITCHELL The problem is that if we trust in man we are always let down. No, we shouldn't trust in man-- not u...
STEFANI CARMICHAEL What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's ...
GENE ROBINSON God guides us from within. He does nothing more than that. There is no charm in God shaping us like ...
VINOBA BHAVE God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed with the currency time
SUNDAY ADELAJA I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down o...
GERONIMO Most people think there is a God, but God is not what most people think.
RAIN BOJANGLES We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call t...
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY Through all life changes , God is in control.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That i...
JEAN COCTEAU God is one; there are not many Gods, one for each tribe among men.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, but that God could ha...
G.K. CHESTERTON I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themse...
TIM TEBOW The freedom of G-d lies in HIs infinite Nature.
EDWARD WEISS We're putting a lot of people on the street right now and I think that we are bringing it under cont...
JEFF WINN I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it...
ANGELINA JOLIE I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how...
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how...
EDWIN A. ROBINSON I trust God that through all life changes , He is in control.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, th...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Not God, but man-made gods kill, by self-will.
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Sex is God's joke on human beings.
BETTE DAVIS It took six days from start to finish for the totality of Creation; but within three days He cut His...
JOHNNIE DENT JR. There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
XENOPHANES Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connecti...
GREG BOYLE I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta."
Leo snorted. "What's a wine...
RICK RIORDAN God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" Th...
OSWALD CHAMBERS I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoy...
MOHAMED AL-FAYED It is when we are up against death, when we find ourselves in despair, that the God of cross is near...
ANDREW ROOT I’m not as Catholic as I used to be. I find that I can’t believe in a God who would punish anyon...
MARSHALL THORNTON All I have to say is what you know already, to confirm what you already know of the message of the P...
YUSUF ISLAM I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe...
MALCOLM BOYD There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external ...
LEO BUSCAGLIA

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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We gotta find a way off this goddamn cop-ridden planet.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We are like water creatures looking up at the land and air and wondering how we can survive in that ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All knowledge all discoveries belong to everybody. . . . All knowledge all discoveries belong to you...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit w...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL think...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner sp...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The questio...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing is true, everything is permitted
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of fink...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's jus...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: the Mark Inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel s...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a to...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and pena...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, be...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base....
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS They are all stupid peasants, and the worst of all peasants are the so-called educated. These people...
WILLIAM S BURROUGHS Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any str...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, wo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunc...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the fr...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In the beginning his flesh was simply soft, so soft that he was cut to the bone by dust particles, a...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Exterminate all rational thought
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The aim of education is the knowledge, not the facts, but of values.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Did I ever tell you about the man
who taught his asshole to talk?

His whole abdomen ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." Th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway said:
'It don't come anymore.'
So where did it go?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

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