I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

‚For Whom the Bell Tolls‘ was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 – for albums, anyway.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

God’s mercy is fresh and new every morning.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, ‚convulsions of nature,‘ etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God’s love.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.