There is no fortress that is any defence from the power of God. […] The sword of divine justice is every moment brandished over their heads, and ’tis nothing but the hand of arbitrary mercy, and God’s meer will, that holds it back.
1916, The Christian Science Journal[1], volume 33, page 374:
Few stop to reflect that to acknowledge evil as real is equivalent to saying that there are places in the universe where there is no God, a conclusion which the psalmist credits not to the wise man, but to the fool.
[Einstein] was fond of talking about God: ‘God does not play at dice’, ‘God is not malicious’. Finally Niels Bohr one day said to him, ‘Stop telling God what to do’.
1983, Grace Kimathi, Pathway to Marriage, Uzima Publishing House, →ISBN, page 7:
This time he might find one who is intelligent, very well qualified academically but too plain looking. He then wonders why God was so mean as to deny beauty to such an intelligent girl.
‘What gives you the right to talk to me like that, boy? What on earth gives you the right?’ Adrian was furious to find there were tears springing to his eyes. ‘God gives me the right, sir, because God loves me. And God won't let me be judged by a f-f-fascist – hypocrite – bastard like you!’
1994, Peter Kreeft, Ronald Keith Tacelli, Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions, InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 138:
To ask why God didn't create such a world is like asking why God didn't create colorless color or round squares.
If he knows he is not God and still says he is and wants you to worship him, then he is a very bad man indeed: a liar and a blasphemer.
1998, Swami Ramdas, edited by Susunaga Weeraperuma, Servant of God: Sayings of a Self-Realised Sage Swami Ramdas, illustrated edition, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., →ISBN, page 32:
Bhakti is the adoration of God, who dwells in his own heart and fills the universe, and surrender of all his actions to Him.
2001, Gregory A. Boyd, Satan and the Problem of Evil: Constructing a Trinitarian Warfare Theodicy, InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 147:
If God is not sovereign, he is not God. If he is not God, he simply is not. If chance is, God is not. If God is, chance is not.
2002, Debra Berry, Be Restored!: God's Power for African American Women, New Hope Publishers, →ISBN, page 50:
It's sometimes easier to see God's hand working in extraordinary or difficult events.
2002, Diane P. Robertson, Tears from Heaven, Voices from Hell[…], iUniverse, →ISBN, page 126:
Only God and me and my son knows how much I love and miss him, […]
2003, Hennie J. Marsman, Women in Ugarit and Israel: Their Social and Religious Position in the Context of the Ancient Near East, BRILL, →ISBN, page 227:
Johannes de Moor has argued convincingly that the Priestly writer assumed the first human being was androgynous, both male and female, like God him/herself.
2005, Richard Carrier, Sense and Goodness without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 74:
What does God need a Big Bang for? That's a terribly slow, messy, complicated way to create a universe, much less people.
2005, Bob Ekblad, Reading the Bible with the Damned, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 22:
If God made us all in his image and likeness, then God looks like people of every race, old and young, man and woman.
2007, John C. Conley, Letters to My Friends: A No Guarantees Guide to Awakening, John C. Conley, →ISBN, page 199:
I talk about how I see God in the eyes of my friends. I talk about how I see God in the beauty of a woman. I talk about how I smell God in the dewed sweetness of a rose. I talk about how I taste God in the nectar of a pear.
2007, Paul Copan, Loving Wisdom: Christian Philosophy of Religion, Chalice Press, →ISBN, page 91:
Some nontheists—and even some theists—will say that "Murder is wrong" would hold true even if God didn't exist; such moral values are just "brute facts."
2007, Myles Munroe, Myles Munroe Devotional & Journal: 365 Days to Realize Your Potential, Destiny Image Publishers, →ISBN, page 209:
“If God is with me, who can be against me?” The implication is that if God has given you something to do and He is with you, nothing or no one is going to stop you from accomplishing what God wants you to do.
2007, Brenda Hicks-Wiggins, My God! My God!, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 54:
I came to my senses quick and in a hurry, because I thought if my life is hard not obeying God, then how sweet it could be if I obey him.
2008, Tom Hale, Stephen Thorson, Applied Old Testament Commentary: Applying God's Word to Your Life, illustrated edition, David C Cook, →ISBN, page 156:
God's covenant was everlasting; humans could break it, but God never would.
2008, David Hovious, All My Life is Poetry, Fideli Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 227:
“You boys be good, because God is watching you.”
2010, Geri Scazzero, I Quit!: Stop Pretending Everything Is Fine and Change Your Life, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 42:
Many people lie to God, only sharing with him what they think he wants to hear or what they ought to feel. I was one of them. Consider the absurdity of such a notion, as if God didn't know us better than we know ourselves.
2011, Adrian Thatcher, God, Sex, and Gender: An Introduction, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 75:
God is beyond the distinction between male and female.
2011, Peter Traben Haas, The God Who Is Here: A Contemplative Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with God and the Church, Lantern Books, →ISBN, page 50:
Life situations such as accidents, sickness, suffering, death, bankruptcy, and divorce try their best to convince us that Godis not here
