Arthur Miller Quotes

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

We cannot, if we would, delude ourselves about the true state of this dreadful contest. It is a religious war.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.

No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He, Unswervingly believes in me.

Never forget that the devil is there 24/7 too. He's very, very busy.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.

People who think that once they are converted all will be happy, have forgotten Satan.

The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.

Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. She trusts me, her hand gentle, the longlashed eyes. Now where the blue hell am I bringing her beyond the veil? Into the ineluctable modality of the ineluctable visuality. She, she, she. What she?

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

We've got to remember the Book says the devil "walketh about the earth to and fro seeking who he may devour", and he nearly got me and he had me for a while. It didn't mean that I was no longer a Christian or that God had disowned me.

I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace

Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.

God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.