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It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH
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The New Revelations: A Conversation with God


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Tags: Neale Donald Walsch


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

WHIPLASH

Iron Man 2


The prerogative of God extendeth as well to the reason as to the will of man: so that as we are to obey His law, though we find a reluctation in our will, so we are to believe His word, though we find a reluctation in our reason.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

Tags: Francis Bacon


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


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

EMILE ZOLA

Truth


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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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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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


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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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

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

LABOULAYE

Abdallah

Tags: Edouard Laboulaye


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

TOM WAITS

"Heartattack and Vine"


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


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


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


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

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I have, I think, somewhat of an odd version of God. I do not have an intervening Go I appreciate other people's prayers for that [a cure for her cancer], but I believe that we are given a set of guidelines, and that we are obligated to live our lives with a view to those guidelines. And I don't believe that we should live our lives that way for some promise of eternal life, but because that's what's right. We should do those things because that's what's right.

ELIZABETH EDWARDS

attributed, Politics Daily, Dec. 8, 2010