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God Quotes by Tom Robbins
- And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of…
- The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our…
- In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd.…
- If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up…
- You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has…
- She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.
- John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working…
- If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
- What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny…
- There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it…
- Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until…
- Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.
- Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.
- The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could…
- The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when…
- Now tequila may be the favoured beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as…
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