Anne Sexton Quotes

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

Our motto is, "With God, anywhere: without God, nowhere."

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

God is in all - I believe in God, yes. And I believe God is in us.

I've always believed in God, from the time I was very, very young. I always knew there was something with me, not necessarily knowing what to call it.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

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.

From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.

Try to live as if there were a God

Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

Look up on high, and thank the God of all.

Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.

If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.

I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.

It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.