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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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on. There is no other place on earth where you can find all five of these benefits in one place.

He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.

Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith.

He lives century after century, and the test I set for him he has passed.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

Help cure the world of the faith virus.

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.

Here's the thing about people who believe in god... They're idiots.

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God. But he that has a charge pressing on his heart, and a woe ringing in his ear, and preaches as though he heard the cried of hell behind him, and saw his God looking down on him-oh, how that man entreats the Lord that his hearers may not hear in vain!

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For one man of science, there are thousands who are not. What would have become of them? Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong, merely relative to this.

He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.

He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

Hey, let's get serious... God knows what he's doin' He wrote this book here And the book says: 'He made us all to be just like Him', So... If we're dumb... Then God is dumb... (And maybe even a little ugly on the side)