T. S. Eliot Quotes

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier; Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce; Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten By the dwellers in cities-ever, however, implacable. Keeping his seasons, and rages, destroyer, reminder Of what men choose to forget. Unhonored, unpropitiated By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.

Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves. God is just a word. Like Fury. like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate.

What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.

God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people down…A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.

There is a God. God exists.

I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power.

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

Honestly, I'm not a big person in terms of religion, but I really believe in nature. I feel like anytime you see anything beautiful in nature that's the closest I'm ever going to get to God or a sense of a higher power.

I definitely believe in a higher power.

I do believe in God.

I have always believed in God.

Power belongs only to God.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

The problem's name is God.

There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.

Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!

You can refer to god and you are really just talking about nature. If you are going to say the universe is god, then everything is god, everything is religion. But when we explore traditional religion we are talking about humanistic gods people pray to, that they think can intervene in our lives, who run sort of a heaven-and-hell operation for the afterworld.

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.