Arms Quote by Jonathan Tropper

“Do you believe in God?” “Not really,” he said. “No.” “Then why do we come here?” He sucked thoughtfully on his Tums tablet and…

— Jonathan Tropper

“Dad handed me his empty glass and patted my shoulder. "Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." Then he picked up his…

— Jeri Smith-Ready

“God was, to me, a lovely dream, a brave make-believe daddy who provided comforting answers to those who couldn't bear the prevailing evidence.”

— Steve Almond

“The mechanic says, "If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I knew from catechism classes and other conversations that people who hadn't grown up with a loving father sometimes struggled to understand a loving…

— Reggie Anderson

“The old, endless, approachable and always answering Sorrow," says my father Lucifer. "For who calls on me never goes unanswered. Only prayers to God…

— Robert Nye

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

— Bill Hybels

My father was an agnostic.

— Jerry Falwell

“The blue-eyed rabbi in our village at Samotschin used to talk to me as though I were a grown person, even when I was…

— Anna Funder

“Now I know my father was a certified man of God, but at a fairly young age, I decided that when it came to…

— Susan Gregg Gilmore

“I expected Dad to do his usual brisk thing and say something like, "Excellent. I will anxiously await your pronouncement on this significant matter."…

— Rachel Hawkins

Every first Friday, my father would go to confession, and he took very seriously the faith he would someday transmit to us.

— Diana Lopez