Bill Watterson Quotes

I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.

I think I've always been good so God wouldn't strike me dead.

Providence punishes national sins with national calamities.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice can not sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many would condone the taking of innocent life. We expect Him to protect us in a crisis, but turn away from Him too often in our day-to-day living. I wonder if He isn't waiting for us to wake up.

Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear me: I rejected the Voice of Providence.

Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.

One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.

Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.

One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.

I do think that many religious people have enormous doubts.

I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

I can't bring myself to believe in a God with a personality like my own. I base that on the paucity of lightning attacks on people who deserve it.

In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

From a just fraud God turneth not away.

Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.

I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.