#god

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another. ↗

— John Clayton

#appreciation #being #blessed #buying #christian

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people? ↗

— John Clayton

#am #campus #college #death #every

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence. ↗

— John Clayton

#any #ask #believe #consistent #existence

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. ↗

— John Clayton

#god #logical #offer #perspective #practical

What is the origin of God? ↗

— John Clayton

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All the gods are dead except the god of war. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#except #god #gods #war

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat? ↗

— John Cleese

#eat #god #intend #make #meat

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard. ↗

— John Cleese

#close #concept #damn #england #god

So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun and sifted down on the world she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody had ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. She often spoke to falling seeds and said, 'Ah hope you fall on soft ground,' because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#literature #their-eyes-were-watching-god #zora-neale-hurston #dreams

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him. ↗

— Arthur Hugh Clough

#almost #disease #every #god #him