Jay Parini Quotes

There's only one God. Call him whatever you want.

I believe that God is very real.

For me, I believe in God, God is real.

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.

When I'm asked to define God, I'm almost wordless.

I do believe in God.

As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates.

God is simply love.

I do not see God as an old man, sitting in the clouds, and watching my genitals.

He is a God.

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.

I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being.

God is a hero.

My audience is God.

God to me is love.

I have my own definition of God, but I believe God is whatever you want Him to be.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God. And 'God' is a word, I think, that some people feel uncomfortable with, so they can use another word, you know? It's the great mystery.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.