Quotes about god

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  1. 26. And [the Messiah] said unto them, "If a man told God that he wanted most of all to help the suffering world, no matter the price to himself, and God answered and told him what he must do, should the man do as he is told?"27. "Of course, Master!" cried the many. "It should be pleasure for him to suffer the tortures of hell itself, should God ask it!"28. "No matter what those tortures, no matter how difficult the task?"29. "Honor to be hanged, glory to be nailed to a tree and burned, if so be that God has asked," said they.30. "And what would you do," the Master said unto the multitude, "if God spoke directly to your face and said, 'I COMMAND THAT YOU BE HAPPY IN THE WORLD, AS LONG AS YOU LIVE.' What would you do then?"31. And the multitude was silent, not a voice, not a sound was heard upon the hillsides, across the valleys where they stood.

  2. Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect.

    Then be sure of one thing:

    The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.

  3. "How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?"

  4. The God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

  5. When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

  6. The truth! Only God sees it.

  7. Enter oneself (we say). When one enters oneself, one sees God.

  8. God made life to be lived and not to be known.

  9. Where do ideas go? They go into the memory of God.

  10. We are worth more when someone looks at us. And, because of this, an eye is always watching us.

  11. It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

  12. Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn’t do anything about it.