God is either powerless, stupid or he doesn't give a shit.
There is no duty in religion more generally agreed on, nor more justly required by God almighty, than a perfect submission to his will in all things: Nor is there any disposition of mind that can either please him more or become us better, than that of being satisfied with all he gives, and contented with all he takes away; none, I am sure, can be of more honour to God, nor more easy to ourselves; for if we consider him as our maker we cannot contend with him; if as our father we ought not to distrust him; so that we may be confident, whatever he does is intended for our good; and whatever happens that we may interpret otherwise, yet we cannot get nothing by repining, nor save anything by resisting.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being.
D. H. LAWRENCE, Lady Chatterley's Lover
What we attribute to God as his excellency and perfection, that we should propose to ourselves as matter of practice and imitation.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
All nature is full of God. He is enthroned in Light: he creates darkness: he hath his way in the whirlwind, fendeth abroad his lightnings, giveth snow like wool, scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes, and casteth forth his ice like morsels! Who can stand before his cold? Who can thunder with a voice like God? It is He who distils the rain from his bottles, who opens the bubbling fountains, who covers the fields with grass, and the hills with flocks, who spins out the fleecy air, and spreads forth the liquid plains, who refreshes us with his wings, lights us with the sun, and entertains us with his table, richly furnish'd with all the dainty of heaven.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, Stranger in a Strange Land
To believe there is a God is to believe the existence of all possible Good and Perfection in the Universe: And it is to be resolved upon this--that things either are, or finally shall be, as they should be.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
God is Alpha and Omega in the great world, let us endeavour to make him so in the little world; let us practice to make him our last thought at night when we sleep; and our first in the morning when we awake; so shall our fancy be sanctified in the night, and our understanding rectified in the day; so shall our rest be peaceful, and our labours prosperous; our life pious, and our death glorious.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
We worship God best when we resemble him most.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
God can be good and terrible--not in succession--but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him; we approach him through the mediating priest and attenuate and enclose him through the sacraments. It is for our own safety: to trap him within confines which render him safe.
Ignorance of nature's ways led people in ancient times to invent gods to lord it over every aspect of human life. There were gods of love and war; of the sun, earth, and sky; of the oceans and rivers; of rain and thunderstorms; even of earthquakes and volcanoes. When the gods were pleased, mankind was treated to good weather, peace, and freedom from natural disaster and disease. When they were displeased, there came draught, war, pestilence, and epidemics. Since the connection of cause and effect in nature was invisible to their eyes, these gods appeared inscrutable, and people at their mercy.
STEPHEN HAWKING & LEONARD MLODINOW, The Grand Design
Gods are great ... but the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return.
NEIL GAIMAN, American Gods
- The longer I live and the more I see
- Of the struggle of souls toward the heights above,
- The stronger this truth comes home to me:
- That the Universe rests on the shoulders of love;
- A love so limitless, deep, and broad,
- That men have renamed it and called it--God.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Deathless"
Where there is most of God, there is least of self.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick
I don't understand worshipping a god who denigrates women and whose 'true believers' feel it's their right to look down on anyone who doesn't think exactly as they do.
P.C. CAST & KRISTIN CAST, Chosen
There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.
FRANK HERBERT, Dune Messiah
What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.
STEPHEN HAWKING, Der Spiegel, Oct. 17, 1988
Gods die when they are forgotten.
NEIL GAIMAN, American Gods
The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.
DAN BROWN, The Lost Symbol
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