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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.

God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.

God can, has and will use anybody who is open to serving Him to convey the gospel. He will bless the efforts of His servants whether they are gifted as evangelizers or not.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.

God is love and if you are ready, he always is.

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

God is all that is. Since everything that exists is God, in one form or another, the only way that God can make a tree is by becoming the tree. Likewise, the way God made you was by becoming you.

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

God is honored by large, difficult, and impossible requests when we ask, seek, knock, and trust our loving Father always to answer for our good.

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

God wants to produce the character of Christ in our lives because he knows that the more we become like him, the more fulfilled we will be.

God was dead. Let Him rest in peace. Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.

Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.

Good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin', I want to thank you Lord.

Grant, Goddess, thy protection, And in protection, strength, And in strength, understanding, And in understanding, knowledge, And in knowledge the knowledge of justice, And in the knowledge of justice, the love of it, And in that love, the love of all existences, And in the love of all existences, the love of Goddess and all goodness.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power.

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.