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God Quotes by Anne Sexton
- ... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is…
- I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are…
- The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.
- God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
- God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
- Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and…
- God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my…
- Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but…
- If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power, they of the…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi