Cecil Beaton Quotes

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

I don't believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable.

My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?

Even if God exists, he's done such a terrible job, it's a wonder people don't get together and file a class action suit against him.

On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?

See that's where it falls apart for me!" Anne cried. "What sticks in my throat is that God gets the credit but never the blame. I just can't swallow that kind of theological candy. Either God's in charge or he's not.

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.

The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.

If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins.

At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.

Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn out, it is a punishment that has been inflicted on him, and the least pleasure he enjoys is a reward; all this is meted out by strict justice; as is said in the Scripture, "all His ways are judgement" (Deut. xxxii. 4); we are only ignorant of the working of that judgement.

Every sin brings its punishment with it.

We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to rail at, suffering easily.

It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?

Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.