“Anyone who knows God cannot describe him. Anyone who describes God does not know him.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I give Him my worries and doubts, my frustrations and insecurities. I give Him the parts of myself that are broken and fearful...Whatever we will become, however the changes and circumstances of our lives will play out, I trust in God to bring me to where I’m meant to be. Bring us to where we’re mea…”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“How come God gets credit whenever something good happens? Where was he when her heart stopped?”— Lawrence Kaplow, Thomas L. Moran, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“Either God doesn't exist or he's unimaginably cruel.”— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“You talk to God, you're religious; God talks to you, you're psychotic.”— Doris Egan, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“For me, and for a lot of the Christian college students I’ve gotten to know over the years, the constant pressure to love God and to be a certain way for God leads you to judge yourself a spiritual failure. It’s never God’s fault that you don’t feel close. Preachers will say ‘God is always reaching…”— Doug Frank, theotherjournal.com
“I was 20 years old. Attending a catholic college where I was playing basketball for, no joke, the Lady Monks. As often as she could my girlfriend would drive three hours to pick me up and drive me back to her house for the weekend. I was so in love and so desperate to see her, but as soon as I’d get…”— Andrea Gibson, facebook.com
“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our pride…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“And sometimes He doesn’t answer our prayers in the way we want Him to because He’s sheltering us from pain. Sometimes it looks like He doesn’t love us, when really He’s granting us the biggest gift.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“I think part of the reason your story is so crazy is that God wants you to know that there is nothing constant except for him. That there is no one better to lean on and trust except for him, that there is no one who will bring you what you want except for him and there is no one who can rewrite you…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“He will heal you. He will heal your broken heart, he will ease your restless mind, and he will solve the mystery of your puzzled thoughts. He wants you to be patient but he will always fix you.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.”— Leonardo da Vinci, amazon.com
“Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“I don't think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Religion seems to have twisted the idea of God into a way to control people.”— Diane Chamberlain, amazon.com
“I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.”— Hannibal Lector, Thomas Harris, amazon.com
“We must transcend the illusion that money or power has any bearing on our worthiness as children of God.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.”— Jess C. Scott, amazon.com