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Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

J.B.S. HALDANE
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Possible Worlds and Other Papers


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Tags: J. B. S. Haldane


Love is the rule of rules, the key to all mysteries. Our conception of God being derived from ourselves and the objects affecting us, we can form no idea except one made up of materials furnished by our experience and reflection. Therefore we select whatever powers and qualities we find amongst ourselves, and consider to be most commendable; we separate them from everything gross, material and imperfect, and heighten them to the utmost imaginable pitch; the aggregate of all these makes up our first rational conception of God.

SABINE-BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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If you can make God bleed, then people will cease to believe in him.

WHIPLASH

Iron Man 2


Our life is like th' unstable wave,
Our bloom of youth decays.
Our joys are brief as lightning flash
In summer's cloudy days,
Our riches fleet as swift as thought;
Faith in the One Supreme
Alone will bear us o'er the gulfs
Of Being's stormy stream.

BHARTRHARI

"Of Time the Destroyer"

Tags: Bhartrhari


God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.

ROBERT BROWNING

Paracelsus

Tags: Robert Browning


A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

EMILE ZOLA

Truth


And almost every one when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

Dipsychus

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What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like, "What does it matter so long as they are contented?" We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven -- a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all".

C. S. LEWIS

The Problem of Pain


Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

TOBSHA LEARNER

The Witch of Cologne

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To live in God is death; to die in God is life.

LABOULAYE

Abdallah

Tags: Edouard Laboulaye


He who in God lives, liveth evermore.

DINAH CRAIK

"Living: After a Death"


I want to tell you about the God that actually showed up and healed my heart. Not the God I grew up, because the God I grew up was fundamentally, and I use the word advisedly, fundamentally untrustworthy -- schizophrenic, narcissistic, unreachable, unknowable, and my concept within which I grew up was that Jesus -- He likes me -- but He came to save me from God the Father -- who was the one who was angry and distant, and unreachable, unknowable. All of that had to come crashing down.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

interview, "Your Daily Bread", Rare, Dec. 10, Rare, Dec. 10, 2013


When God makes his presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was--he only saw the brightness of the lord.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin, and the bones in the flesh, and the heart in the bulk, so are we soul and body clad and enclosed in the goodness of God: yea, and more homelie, for all they vanish and waste away, the goodness of God is ever whole and more near to us without any comparison.

JULIAN OF NORWICH

Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love

Tags: Julian of Norwich


Don't you know there ain't no devil? There's only God when He's drunk.

TOM WAITS

"Heartattack and Vine"


Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

EDWARD ABBEY

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)

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God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

JOHN LOCKE

"An Examination of P. Malebranche's Opinion of Seeing All Things in God", Philosophical Works


God's image is in every man, high or low--a road puddle holds the moon as well as the sea.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the walls of his cell.

C. S. LEWIS

The Problem of Pain

Tags: C. S. Lewis


I now conceive of God as in his universe. I conceive of creation as a growth. I conceive of him as making the universe somewhat as our spirit makes our body, shaping and changing and developing it by processes from within. The figures from the finite to the infinite are imperfect and misleading, but this is the figure which best represents to me my own thought of God's relation to the universe: Not that of an engineer who said one morning, " Go to, I will make a world," and in six days, or six thousand years, or six million thousand years, made one by forming it from without, as a potter forms the clay with skilful hand; but that of a Spirit who has been forever manifesting himself in the works of creation and beneficence in all the universe, one little work of whose wisdom and beneficence we are and we see. He who would see God must use the faculty with which God is seen; and if he would do this, he must let men who are rich in the faculty which perceives the invisible, -- which looks not at the things which are seen and are temporal, but at the things which are not seen and are eternal, -- guide, teach, inspire him.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Seeking After God

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