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• “Any genuine experience of God will send us out to serve those whom God loves. And working with people will make us aware of how much we are in need of God, of God’s help and guidance. This will gradually usher in a rhythm of prayer and work – prayer leading to work and work leading to prayer. So the integration of prayer and work takes place existentially.”

  Kurien Kunnumpuram (1931–2018) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Kunnumpuram, K. (ed) (2006) Life in Abundance: Indian Christian Reflections on Spirituality. Mumbai: St Pauls

• “When we frame our desires in sound words and place them before our indwelling Lord, we are using intelligently the supreme law of God in bringing into manifestation that which He has implanted in us. A prayer without desire in it, a prayer without sincerity in it, a prayer without soul in it, a prayer without Spirit in it is a fruitless prayer.”

  Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is important that we not fall into a social activism which can become a type of neo-pelagianism. Our work is always the work of God. We maintain a balance between our work and the action of God's grace, above all, by prayer - not only liturgical prayer but also personal prayer. I do not think we can overemphasize the importance of personal prayer, especially in our world today.”

  Edmund Casimir Szoka (1927–2014) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: H.Em. Card. Edmund Casimir SZOKA , President of Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State (25 November 1997) Holy See Press Office

• “The other gods! The other gods! The gods of the outer hells that guard the feeble gods of earth!... Look away... Go back... Do not see! Do not see! The vengeance of the infinite abysses... That cursed, that damnable pit... Merciful gods of earth, I am falling into the sky!”

  H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools. This verse establishes uncompromisingly that all Gods — G capital, that is to say, 'true Gods' — and all men deified by legend or deceit — that is to say, false gods' — are fools. How come? It is a key. Distinction is clearly made between the two types: one are Gods; the other is men.”

  Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “God damn X-Entertainment. God damn it for being so god damn interesting that I'd rather sit reading their god damn articles when I should be doing some god damn work. God damn them. God damn the doctor for putting me on these god damn pills that make me god damn drowsy and fucked up all god damn morning. God damn everything. Then god damn god damning. (18 August 2004)”

  Ben Croshaw (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Apart from the fact that I meditate daily, work out and eat well, prayer is my mainstay. I pray through any and everything. No matter what circumstances surround me, no matter what comes and goes, prayer is the one thing that never changes. Prayer is where I source my strength. Prayer never leaves, it never forsakes me. It’s always me and God, and I’m really grateful for that”

  Bonnie Mbuli (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Gods can do anything. They fear nothing: they are gods. But there is one rule, one Seal of Solomon that can confound a god, and to which all gods pay service, to the letter: When belief in a god dies, the god dies. When the last acolyte renounces his faith and turns to another deity, the god ceases to be.”

  Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The God of the Jews was an absolute God, who believed in other gods himself, to be sure, but forbade me to obey them, contrary to our own beliefs in the North. We have many gods and obey them all, and they us, the god of the sea and the god of the land, the god of thunder and the god of poetry.”

  Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.”

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.”

  Jonathan Edwards (theologian) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”

  Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The gods...the gods may forgive much, to a truly penitent heart." Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves.”

  Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When gods war with gods, they use weapons we do not know. It was fire falling out of the sky and a mist that poisoned. It was the time of the Great Burning and the Destruction. They ran about like ants in the streets of their city — poor gods, poor gods!”

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You think this is what the gods want? What the gods won’t punish?” Great. One of those religious weirdos. “Gods this” and “punish that.” At least in my mum’s camp, I didn’t have to listen to that crap. She used to laugh at people like that. “What good are the gods?” she’d say. “Don’t be thanking them. I’m the one who got you this food.”

  Malcolm Azania (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God and God is in my soul. The day I understood that, everything became clear to me, and I would like to share this secret with all those I love so that they, too, might cling to God through everything, so that this prayer of Christ might be fulfilled: "Father, may they be made perfectly one!”

  Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880–1906) first seen 1902 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letters to Madame de Sourdon, L 122, 15 June 1902; as quoted in Always Believe in Love: Selected Writings of Elizabeth of the Trinity by Marian Murphy, 2017, p. 109.

• “When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer — you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.”

  J. D. Salinger (1919–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father — that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for — if you will receive it — when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.”

  Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) said by 1875 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, And then Money, and Power, and what they call Life, or Race, or Dialectic.”

  T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It has been said that God always answers prayer. Sometimes He says “yes” sometimes he says “no” and sometimes He says “wait a while”. Sometimes God will answer a prayer in a different way than we have first anticipated. The fact is, many of us pray for things that God knows would only hinder our walk with Him so for our own good He withholds them from us.”

  Ray Comfort (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.”

  Ellen G. White (1827–1915) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Steps to Christ (1892), p. 93

• “What good does it do to pray about anything if the outcome is not affected? I would say when God chooses which world to actualize, he takes into account the prayers that would be offered in that world. We shouldn't think prayer is about changing the mind of God. He's omniscient; he already knows the future, but prayer makes a difference in that it can affect what world God has chosen to create.”

  William Lane Craig (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.”

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1830–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Our Lord is the Ground of our Prayer. Herein were seen two properties: the one is rightful prayer, the other is steadfast trust; which He willeth should both be alike large; and thus our prayer pleaseth Him and He of His Goodness fulfilleth it.”

  Julian of Norwich (1342–1500) said by 1500 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion.”

  William James (1842–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Pagodas like as mosques are homes of prayer, ’Tis prayer that church-bells chime into the air; Yea, church and ka’ba, rosary and cross Are all but divers tongues of world-wide prayer.”

  Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) said by 1131 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “By prayer I mean not merely prayer from the mouth, but of the mind and heart, of all the powers of the soul and senses of the body. This is the prayer prayed by the soul who wills and desires to find this divine light, studying, meditating and reading without cease in the Book and the more-than-a-book of Life. This Book of Life is the entire life of Christ while he lived as a mortal on earth.”

  Angela of Foligno (1248–1309) said by 1309 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As in all matters where we seek divine help we are free to use any words we choose or no words at all...Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed... Prayer in man is a conscious expression of the upward trend of nature found everywhere. So every impulse or desire of the soul for life, love, light, is a prayer.”

  Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Prayer. No matter how busy the day becomes, prayer grounds me and keeps me aligned with my purpose. It’s where I find peace and clarity before stepping into the demands of leadership and creativity. Those moments of prayer throughout the day re-center me so I can pour into my family, my work, and into others from a full place”

  Anifa Mvuemba (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.”

  Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) said by 1380 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Attributed by Dorothy Day in On Pilgrimage (1948) p. 161

• “Yet what are seas and what is air? For all Is God, and but a talisman are heaven and earth To veil Divinity. For heaven and earth, Did He not permeate them, were but names; Know then, that both this visible world and that Which unseen is, alike are God Himself, Naught is, save God: and all that is, is God.”

  Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reported in Lucy M. J. Garnett, Mysticism and Magic in Turkey (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912), p. 49

• “Our whole civilization, our entire culture is concentrated in the mad demand for the most perfected weapons of slaughter. Ammunition! Ammunition! O, Lord, thou who rulest heaven and earth, thou God of love, of mercy and of justice, provide us with enough ammunition to destroy our enemy. Such is the prayer which is ascending daily to the Christian heaven.”

  Emma Goldman (1869–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Well, before you are always self—you’re always self-centered. Everything is for you. Your self is God. And we make lousy gods. Humans make lousy gods, I think. We need to let God be God and us be what we are. I think that’s what changes: the focus on who you’re serving. You’re not serving you. You’re serving Christ.”

  Alice Cooper (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The reality is that our God is good. It's in his nature to be good; it's who he is--a giving God, a blessing God, an encouraging God, a nurturing God, an empowering God, a loving God. This is the God who willingly waits for your call.”

  Bill Hybels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God’s victim, God’s plaything, God’s prey.”

  Octavia Butler (1947–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human – human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.”

  Laura Riding (1901–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Bull-Fight" from Essays from Epilogue (Manchester: Carcanet, 2001)

• “Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like.”

  Wole Soyinka (born 1934) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Conversations with Wole Soyinka (2001)

• “Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. … These gods dwell in their mythocracies as opposed to your theocracies, democracies, and monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality.”

  Sun Ra (1914–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.”

  Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “She used to ask, 'Why did the gods give [my son] to me if they were only going to take him away?' Learned Retaka never had an answer. "No," said Pen slowly, "that's backward. The gods do not give us our children. We give our children to the gods.”

  Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He always asked, why thus? why this way, not another way? I answered: Because in what we do daily and in the way we do it, we enact the gods. He said: Then the gods are only what we do. I said: In what we do rightly, the gods are.”

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You might think that in today's world people are unlikely to start worshipping other gods. But sometimes people do worship 'other gods' without realizing it. False 'gods' are nearly always associated with the worship of three things: material possessions, possessive love, or power.”

  Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It has often been noted that gods could not exist without mortals and mortals could not exist without gods.” “Yet gods, it appears,” said Corum, “can affect our destinies.” “And we can affect theirs, can we not?”

  Michael Moorcock (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ire and Iron and Voorstod, the three peoples who had followed Voorstod the prophet away from Manhome. Voorstod with its pastors, Ire with its priests, and Iron with its prophets: the first to rule the slaves, the second to rule the women, the last to rule the men—to rule the men, or to be used by the men, to rule. That had always been the way of men’s Gods, old men’s Gods. To use the Gods to rule.”

  Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “By the time mortal races leave their home planets, many of their gods have already amalgamated with one another. Small tribal godlets are often thrust together through shared execrations. All Death-Honor-and-War gods, for example, are identical. The people may fly different flags, but their gods are happy to drink blood from both sides of the battle.”

  Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It takes more than an invading army or crusaders or a demolition squad with sledge-hammers to establish the domain of Truth… Similarly, it is not that easy to get over ‘falsehood’… True spiritual demolition involves the demolition of desire-gods and ego-gods, the demolition of the false gods that reside in conceited theologies, in pretentious revelations and fond belief…”

  Ram Swarup (1920–1998) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Understanding Islam Through Hadis , Voice of India, Second Reprint, 1987, Pp. 115-16. other source

• “We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.”

  Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In "Gods", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)

• “Human cognition (re)creates the gods who sustain hope beyond sufficient reason and commitment beyond self interest. Humans ideally represent themselves to one another in gods they trust. Through their gods, people see what is good in others and what is evil.”

  Scott Atran (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “All the songs we dance to are of Gods and Goddesses. You may ask, why so many Gods and Goddesses? The only reply I can give is, Why not so many Gods and Goddess ?”

  Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: quoted in Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines

• “A coup de grâce. a götterdämmerung battle. oh its a twilight of the gods alright, these would-be gods of the new world order. they're no gods at all. ragnarök.”

  Alex Jones (born 1974) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Alex Jones Clip Compilation, November 23, 2016

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