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God Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss…
- God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
- My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand…
- He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your…
- ...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here…
- It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow,…
- I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God…
- But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things…
- Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just…
- To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if…
- God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
- God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to…
- When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes…
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- 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
- Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has… — Michele Bachmann
- Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures… — Benjamin Carson
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- To whom God will, there be the victory. — William Shakespeare