I’m not as Catholic as I used to be. I find that I can’t believe in a God who would punish anyone for the way he made them. A God who punishes is something mankind created as a way to hurt and control one another. God isn’t like that. God is better than that, better than us.
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Related I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjo... LUKE SCOTT Do not believe in a god who is as silly, and meaner than you. For, that would surely be your higher-... FAKEER ISHAVARDAS The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who se... JOHANN MOST I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ... PAT BUCKLEY The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love th... JOSEPH RATZINGER The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love th... POPE BENEDICT XVI I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson... ERNEST HOLMES I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every b... STEPHEN KING A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said... ROBIN WASSERMAN I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the G... MARY ROSE O'REILLEY I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so n... MEISTER ECKHART Don’t you know what god is? God is everything and God is nothing; for the perfection created by ma... ALDO PALAZZESCHI I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and emp... C. JOYBELL C. All I'm saying is, is God the god who we look to for comfort during tragedies? Is he the god who... BENJAMIN WATSON It is extremely naive to think that mankind is capable of sinning against god. If god exists as a be... GREGORY WALLACE CAMPBELL A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster... DAVID REMNICK He who doesn’t believe that God can do everything believes in a god who can do something! He who k... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you ... MEISTER ECKHART As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates. PHILLIP E. JOHNSON I do believe in God. I don't believe in God as a person, but I believe in God as a state of ener... DAVID DOBKIN God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and ... JOHN PIPER Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amaz... WILLIAM H. WILLIMON I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in J... POPE FRANCIS A man actually has two Gods. The one, created him and the other, he created. Nature is not the first... THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For those who believe in God the matter is simpler still and clearly than anything else: because tho... MORARJI DESAI You and I were created by God to be so much more than normal…Following the crowd is not a winning ... TIM TEBOW I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal... JOHN LENNON I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists. PAT BUCKLEY I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. ALBERT EINSTEIN They were in a better condition, acknowledging only a terror above them flaming on that unknown moun... GEORGE MACDONALD I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible... BERTRAND RUSSELL God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy... SOCRATES I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of ever... YOSSI SARID Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
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As, God be than... ROBERT BROWNING Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, As God be thanked! I... ROBERT BROWNING God help anyone who stands in your way. You do like to manage other people's lives, don't you?" LISA KLEYPAS God is looking for a willing heart. He is searching for few like Easther....who will say if I perish... PATIENCE JOHNSON As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the i... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God. KARL G. MAESER Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well ... VOLTAIRE The Catholic chruch as threatened your life - do you not want revenge? Have you not sold your hatred... S.J. PARRIS First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a bette... OKSANA BAIUL If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then... ROGER ROSENBLATT I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal... JOHN LENNON I reject the notion of talking about God as a person, but there's a difference between talking about... MATTHEW FOX A God who knew the answer to that question would indeed know everything and have everything. For tha... SCOTT ADAMS Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. Go... PETER KREEFT God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman. ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS Its important to understand that a legalist isn't just someone with higher standards or more rules t... C.J. MAHANEY It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now thi... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN He is an atheist anyone who does not believe in my god and the wrath of god is upon him; I am in my ... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in ... CHAPMAN COHEN Because God knows me better than I know myself, I must go to Him to find out who I am. MICHAEL NICHOLS Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all lo... J.C. RYLE We are susceptible to heretical teachings because, in one form or another, they nurture and reflect ... C. FITZSIMONS ALLISON Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn't mean I am immortal. It doesn't me... AYRTON SENNA And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's l... ROWAN WILLIAMS If God wanted us all to be the same, he would have made us that way. CARLOTTA HARRELL To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, but a liv... VINCENT VAN GOGH I have had friends who I decided were not good friends, were people who brought more trouble than ha... DAVE EGGERS Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We ha... SERAPHIM ROSE I handed them a script and they turned it down. It was too controversial. It talked about concepts l... GENE RODDENBERRY I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about G... WALT WHITMAN If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself. KRIS KRISTOFFERSON To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than m... C.S. LEWIS That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER God cannot be referred to as 'good,' 'better,' or 'best' because He is above all things. If a man sa... ANDREW DAVIDSON Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far it is t... JOSEPH E. MCCABE Love has helped me to know God, but in a very selfish way. I learned that if there is on... KHADIJA RUPA God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here... MATTIE STEPANEK Women need to learn to accept the incredible blessing that God created us to be. When God created Ev... LASHAWNDA JONES I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God. PAT BUCKLEY God would prefer us all to be united than divided. The devil would prefer us all to be divided than ... SUZY KASSEM Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Whoso goes seeking God... MEISTER ECKHART I find people that truly believe there is no God as arrogant as those that truly believe there is as... CARL WHITE God often uses failure to make us useful. When Jesus called the disciples, He did not go out and fin... OS HILLMAN We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better b... IZAAK WALTON Be still, and know that I am God'. We must not interpret that 'Be still' in a sentimental manner. So... D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES I do believe in the Bible as the final word of God. And I do believe that God said the Earth would n... JOHN SHIMKUS Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY God made you the way He wanted you to be and He does not make mistakes. He has a plan for your life ... MICHELE WOOLLEY ...we have chosen to speak of spirituality ultimately as the way in which we live out our respons... JANET O. HAGBERG Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 In saying God is there, we are saying Go... FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God an... ANONYMOUS I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked. MAE WEST But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely,... JOHN WYNDHAM God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all t... JOHN TAULER One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of suc... NEALE DONALD WALSCH No matter how bad you feel, God never sees you as a reckless person. He may see you as a sinner who ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Arguments for atheism can be divided into two main categories: those that dispute the existence of g... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I do what I do because I love God, as I love your children, as I love humanity, as I love peace, tru... SUZY KASSEM If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of t... ISAAC ASIMOV The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppe... ORSON SCOTT CARD there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] ... KHALED HOSSEINI The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble ... C.S. LEWIS It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically... BRUCE FEILER There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the d... HELEN KELLER Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Ab... A. W. TOZER Since open-mindedness and experimentation are supposed to be the indispensable attributes of our 'sc... BILL WILSON
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ELIZABETH THORNTON Everybody has a right to their own troubles. THORNTON WILDER We've gotten good pressure. That's not a question. Teams know that. Some of the pressure we've had h... JOHN THORNTON We talked a lot about mechanics. Being tall, when something mechanical can go wrong, it goes wrong i... MATT THORNTON From Day 1, I just played real well with Cheech. You don't plan for something like this. These two a... JOE THORNTON I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID! THORNTON WILDER Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great works at some moment every day THORNTON WILDER A living is made, Mr. Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year. Yes, s... THORNTON WILDER Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. THORNTON WILDER The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive min... THORNTON WILDER But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human ... THORNTON WILDER Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home THORNTON WILDER There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from th... THORNTON WILDER I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal THORNTON WILDER An incinerator is a writer's best friend. THORNTON WILDER The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith t... THORNTON WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your p... THORNTON WILDER Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder THORNTON WILDER The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder. THORNTON WILDER Usually you take a penalty because you're a little bit tired or lazy and you're out of position. Ron... SCOTT THORNTON It's unbelievable. All these big oak trees are just uprooted, everything is brown and the waterline ... DOUG THORNTON We've been playing well in the east. We've been playing this way the last little while. JOE THORNTON The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. THORNTON WILDER For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alleviation? THORNTON WILDER And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all t... THORNTON WILDER The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I'v... THORNTON WILDER We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sove... THORNTON WILDER The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choo... THORNTON WILDER Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterd... THORNTON WILDER One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with... THORNTON WILDER A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference . . . and fin... THORNTON WILDER Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. THORNTON WILDER I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in... THORNTON WILDER There's nothing like mixing with a woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense THORNTON WILDER Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. THORNTON WILDER Yes. Now you know. Now you know. That's what it was to be alive, to move about in a cloud of ignoran... THORNTON WILDER Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of ... THORNTON WILDER The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which ... THORNTON WILDER For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? THORNTON WILDER