Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.

The world is a living image of God.

The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.

I think God is in us. I think we manifest God in every moment.

We have souls. And guardian angels. We are never alone. I feel so comforted knowing this.

Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.

I live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine. I know that this Presence is All knowing and All Power and is Always right where I am

Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation... of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

...If there’s a God, there are plenty of people who know where he is.” I shrugged, still watching the sky. ... “I just want to know that he’s there, so that I can die knowing there’s going to be someone I can punch in the mouth on the other end.

The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Who was it said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?

We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.

Finding God in All Things.

He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

Life began on this planet when the first amoeba split. Mankind will still be seeking God, not accepting that God is a spirit; can't see it, touch it, only feel it. It's called LOVE.

It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.

Everyone has a spark of divinity inside them. After all, we were created in the image of God.