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God Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their…
- He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God…
- There is no God and we are his prophets.
- In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms,…
- Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
- When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would…
- Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
- This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest…
- He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
- They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse…
- If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures…
- If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to…
- I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him.…
- Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.
- He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no…
- Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of…
- A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but…
- In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been,…
- Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the…
- Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can…
- Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that…
- What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream
- The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if…
- What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for…
- Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I…
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