Emily Dickinson Quotes

I do not need a reason to be angry with God.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

I'm supposed to be a christian, but most days I don't feel like I can even presume to say that about myself any longer. I have a lot of mad left over. When I can't sleep, I think about the other people who didn't care how much pain and trouble they caused me. And I think about how good I'd feel if they died.

Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.

It's not the things I don't understand about the Bible that bother me; it's the things I understand with perfect clarity and don't comply with that keep me up at night.

I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!

I don't have the faith now. I certainly believe in Jesus - you know, that he existed and he was a very nice man. And who can disagree with a simple philosophy of treat other people like you'd like to be treated yourself? It's absolutely - nothing I can disagree with that.

But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

Thank God we don't serve God with our feelings, otherwise I don't know where I would be. - Pray for me.

I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."

God still hasn't recovered from the time that Satan doubted him....all God wants is someone to believe in him...God needs people to believe in him.

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.

Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.

I'd rather not live like there isn't a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it

Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.

God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed.

There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.