I handed them a script and they turned it down. It was too controversial. It talked about concepts like, ‘Who is God?’ The Enterprise meets God in space; God is a life form, and I wanted to suggest that there may have been, at one time in the human beginning, an alien entity that early man believed was God, and kept those legends. But I also wanted to suggest that it might have been as much the Devil as it was God. After all, what kind of God would throw humans out of Paradise for eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge? One of the Vulcans on board, in a very logical way, says, ‘If this is your God, he’s not very impressive. He’s got so many psychological problems; he’s so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a supreme being.’ Gene Roddenberry
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God who creates faulty humans and then blames them for their own mistakes. Gene Roddenberry
As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small. Comte de Bussy-Rabutin
I don’t know what God is. But in my wildest dreams I would never conceive of God or a god as being like a modern human being in a materialistic society. Jane Goodall
I’m tired of a God who keeps truth so well hidden that so few seem to find it. Simon, board post 9th May 2000; viz also the Salamander Society online
I’ll tell you what happened – I just ran out of bullshit. Am I still on the air? I don’t know any other way to say it other than I just ran out of Bullshit. Bullshit is all the reasons we give for living. And if we can’t think of any reasons of our own we have the God bullshit. [inaudible] ... going through all this pointless pain and humiliation and decay, so they’d better be someone somewhere who does know – that’s the God bullshit. Network 1976 starring Faye Dunaway & Peter Finch & William Holden & Robert Duvall & Wesley Addy & Ned Beatty & Beatrice Straight & Jordan Charney & William Prince & Lane Smith & Marlene Warfeidl & Conchata Ferrell et al, director Sidney Lumet
God is on everyone’s side ... And, in the last analysis, He is on the side of those with plenty of money and large armies. Jean Anuihl, French Dramatist, 1910-1987
God’s in his heaven
All’s right with the world. Robert Browning, Pippa Passes
Our God, our help in ages past
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home. Isaac Watts, Our God Our Help In Ages Past
God in the Dock. C S Lewis, collection of essays and speeches
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right then have it your own way. C S Lewis
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C S Lewis
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word darkness on the walls of his cell. C S Lewis
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C S Lewis
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. C S Lewis
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? A man feels wet when he falls into water, because man is not a water animal: a fish would not feel wet. Of course, I could have given up my idea of justice by saying that it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too – for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my private fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist – in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless – I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality – namely my idea of justice – was full of sense. Consequently, atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. C S Lewis
I’m sick and tired of hearing about all of the radicals and the perverts and the liberals and the leftists and the communists coming out of the closet. It’s time for God’s people to come out of the closet, out of the churches and change America. James Robison, Christian televangelist, with Ronald Regan in attendance
But God’s own descent
Into flesh was meant
As a demonstration
that the supreme merit
Lay in risking spirit
In substantiation. Robert Frost, Kitty Hawk
When wilt thou save the people?
Oh, God of Mercy! when?
The people, Lord, the people!
Not thrones and crowns, but men! Ebenezer Elliott, The People’s Anthem, 1850
And almost every one when age,
Disease or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him. Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819-61, Dipsychus
Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two? ibid.
Nearer my God to thee. Sarah Flower Adams, 1804-1848
Get ready to meet God. Muhammad Ali, interview Reg Gutteridge, film When Ali Came to Newcastle
I am the champion of the world. I am the champion of the world. I am the champion of the world. I am the champion of the world. I am be the greatest thing that ever lived. I don’t have a mark on my face. I’m so great I don’t have a mark on my face. And I’ve upset Sonny Liston. And I’ve just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the Greatest. I told the world! I talk to God every day. If God’s with me, can’t nobody be against me. I shook up the world! I know God. I know the real God. Muhammad Ali, post-fight interview
I would like to say that I didn’t lose a thing up until this very moment. I haven’t lost one thing. O have gained a lot. Number one: I have gained a peace of mind. I have gained a peace of heart. I now know that I am in content with almighty God himself, whose proper name is Allah. Muhammad Ali, address to audience
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. Paul Tillich
God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong instruments are being used for the job. J B Phillips
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol. Deitrich Bonhoeffer
The glory of God is a man fully alive. St Irenaeus, attributed
Double Estate – entailed at pleasure
Upon an unsuspecting Heir –
Duke in a moment of Deathlessness
And God, for a Frontier. Emily Dickinson
If you believe in the rock [holds rock] then you automatically believe in God. Depack Chopra
God enters by a private door into every individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson, essay
I believe that God wants everybody to be free. That’s what I believe. And that’s part of my foreign policy. George W Bush
The more time we spend with God the more we see that he is not a distant king but a loving father. George W Bush
God speaks through me. George W Bush
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. Niccolo Machiavelli