“I'm an ordained pastor. But it's just stopped making sense to me. You see people doing terrible things in the name of religion, and you think: 'Those people believe just as strongly as I do. They're just as convinced as I am.' And it just doesn't make sense anymore. It doesn't make sense to believe…”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog's owner. But no man--spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort--may become a dog's Master without consent of the dog. Do you get the difference? And he whom a dog once unreservedly accepts as Master is forever that dog's God.”— Albert Payson Terhune, amazon.com
“It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don't know what he looks like.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way”— Kate Wicker, amazon.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
“I don't know if I believe in God anymore or heaven, but if I'm going to hell, I'm making damn sure I'm holding it off as long as I can.”— Robert Kirkman, amazon.com
“Last time I asked God for a favor and stopped to admire a view, my son got shot. I try not to mix it up with the Almighty anymore. Best we stay out of each others way.”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com
“I can't profess to understand God's plan, Christ promised the resurrection of the dead. I just thought he had something a little different in mind.”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com
“You must ask for God’s help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask for forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue its…”— C.S. Lewis, amazon.com
“God’s already pissed off. He has been for five thousand years, and He’s sick to the nucleus of His soul. He’s not going to show Himself—you’re not worth His time. God’s gone. He’s fuckin’ busy, man.”— Edward Lee, amazon.com
“He listened to the keening of the wind whistling through holes in the walls, and he pondered the thought that there might be something out there in the dark—God or Devil or something more elemental than either—that looked at humankind as Josh had viewed the roach—less than intelligent, certainly nas…”— Robert McCammon, amazon.com
“Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren’t they working the same side of the street? Aren’t the judge and the executioner on the same team?”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The aut…”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com