“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
Questions about God have occupied human minds for as long as human minds have existed. These quotes approach the divine from every angle — faith, doubt, reverence, and the honest wrestling that happens when you take the biggest questions seriously.
“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.”
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
“After all, God is God because he remembers.”
“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.”
“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”
“God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.”
“God wants to bless us where we are.”
“The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.”
“When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.”
“The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.”
“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”
“God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.”
“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”
“I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.”
“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”
“I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.”