Quotes About Playing God

#1. If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.

Gail Sheehy

#2. I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

Erica Jong

#3. Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.

Alex Epstein

#4. Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

Bernie Siegel

#5. This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

Larry Wall

#6. Playing God is as dangerous for God as it is for humans.

George Hammond

#7. People say we are playing God. My answer is: If we don't play God, who will?

James D. Watson

#8. If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

Aubrey De Grey

#9. There's something so arrogant about us creating robots that are more and more human-looking or acting. It's like we're playing God. Let's create something that's a reflection of us, but it's inferior.

Jeff Lemire

#10. First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn't work.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#11. I worried about playing God (in the movie Oh God). We're about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

George Burns

#12. You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.

Anjem Choudary

#13. Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

Jack Kevorkian

#14. The chief objection to playing God is that someone else is God already.

J. Budziszewski

#15. I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in
your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than
that?

Sidney Sheldon

#16. I loved playing Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar. I mean you can't do better than playing God!

Hugh Panaro

#17. If you're playing God, you need to get it right.

Larry Brooks

#18. I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.

Kallam Anji Reddy

#19. Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or playing God.This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.

Thomas Sowell

#20. You really are playing God." "I most certainly am not playing.

Orson Scott Card

#21. When we have the ability to save someone's life, and we decide they aren't worthy of being saved - isn't that playing God as well?

Diana Peterfreund

#22. No ... we're not playing God. We're only attempting to set things right.

Clyde DeSouza

#23. There are over 30 doctors running for the US Congress this year. That's going to be rather strange. Half the time these folks will be playing God and asking women to take their clothes off and the other half the time they will be doctors.

Jay Leno

#24. I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.

Stephen Lang

#25. Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#26. Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God

Elizabeth Wein

#27. When we stop playing God, God can play through us.

Julia Cameron

#28. I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.

Kate Atkinson

#29. Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

Neil Gaiman

#30. I don't care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he's addicted to craps.

Henry Mosquera

#31. Trane's playing is literally the most convincing proof of God's existence I've ever come across.

John Green

#32. My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

Keith Thibodeaux

#33. What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

Sri Aurobindo

#34. When you're connected to a source and to each other through conversation, through making love, through meditation, playing games with your kids, all that stuff, then your self-esteem's going to go up.

Jack Canfield

#35. God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, "You're it. I mean you're really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen."

Hafez

#36. Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

Sammy Sosa

#37. If you look at most definitions, a god is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. In particular, god knows when you are doing something that you shouldn't be doing and whether you are playing according to god's rules.

Julian Assange

#38. When I started working in film, I loved photography, I loved the image, I loved telling the story within a frame, but as I started playing around with film and video, it was like, 'Oh my god.' You just have so much more to play with.

Lynn Shelton

#39. Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them

Paul Gascoigne

#40. God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God from His music. The universal Consciousness is constantly being played by the Supreme Himself, and is constantly growing into the Supreme Music.

Sri Chinmoy

#41. When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.

Gene Krupa

#42. God's signature is not just in the cell, it's in all of creation. God is as necessary to the universe as a band is to music. Once the band stops playing, the music is over.

Frank Turek

#43. On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.

Tim Tebow

#44. God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.

Link Wray

#45. At its worst, privilege is blindness, allowing us to blithely go on in our god playing, not even aware of the insults to image bearers that happen under our noses every day.

Andy Crouch

#46. Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

Kelsey Grammer

#47. I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

Joshua Homme

#48. To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

William James

#49. I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

Charlie Daniels

#50. I really like playing with Mike Doughty from Soul Coughing. He was cool. He opened up some shows for us. I liked playing with G. Love, he's amazing. God Damn, it was like the best live I had ever seen.

Mason Jennings

#51. Our assumptions of playing "gods" could lead to our own ignorance.

Henry Johnson Jr

#52. When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

Michael Jordan

#53. I remember, my mom, she's lived in Spain for about thirty years, and we were playing the Royal Albert Hall, and she was with some friends from New York. Morrissey came out with the sign 'The Queen is Dead,' and my mom's friends are like, 'Oh my God.' They took it literally.

Andy Rourke

#54. Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.

Leonard Ravenhill

#55. And oh my God, who brought that goddamn guitar? I want to kill them. Do you know how you can tell who the douche bag is at the party? It's the guy who starts playing the acoustic guitar.

Robin Benway

#56. God is playing a role in all religions and that Christians are more united than they sometimes think.

George O. Wood

#57. Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

Rita Rudner

#58. When authorities learned that Eugene O'Neill's play All God's Chillun proposed to show black and white children playing together as if that were normal, the district attorney for Manhattan sent the police to stop it.

Bill Bryson

#59. To YoYo Ma: You playing is the best argument I've ever heard for the existence of God, because I don't really believe a human alone can do this.

Steve Jobs

#60. I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.

Vincent Piazza

#61. I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.

John Howard

#62. was it scripted by God or I am playing with my life.

Durgesh Satpathy

#63. But being energetic in my playing is something I've always thought was the right thing to do. Like I'm never forcing it, like "My God, I've gotta play so hard tonight!"

Tony Palermo

#64. I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

Bill Bailey

#65. I want to contrast this ceramic image of the world with the distinctly different dramatic image that is the presiding image of the Hindus. Their idea is that God did not make the world, but acted it. That is to say, every person and every thing is a role or part that the Godhead is playing.

Alan W. Watts

#66. It simply dazzled her how he went from goofy bear, rolling on his back and playing with his toes, and right into sexy-beyond-belief Jersey grizzly who'd worked her body like a love god.

Shelly Laurenston

#67. Often in the morning I will sit in a favorite chair in my study with a cup of coffee, with classical music playing, not trying to form a prayer with words but waiting, listening, until perhaps I sense the Spirit bringing to the surface a word from God. Then I offer just a simple 'Thank you.'

Leighton Ford

#68. Honest to god, I'm so happy it's frightening! I'm just so chuffed - that's all I can say.
(on playing for Liverpool again)

Robbie Fowler

#69. Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

Mark Sheppard

#70. If God is playing hide and seek with us, I must confess that I am quite bored with this childish game!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#71. God has really blessed me. He could've allowed me to keep playing, but instead he saved my life.

Isaiah Austin

#72. God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us... so what we to do now???
To move less, to move more???
- What??

Deyth Banger

#73. All the names of the ultimate truth are
given by human beings. Whether you call it Allah or God or Jehovah or Rama or Krishna,
these names are given by human beings and hence they cannot be eternal. You are playing
one sided game. The truth has nothing to do with these names.

Rahul Karn

#74. They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God in our inerrant Scriptures or in our infallible pronouncements or in our unbroken apostolic traditions.

John Shelby Spong

#75. God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

#76. There was one dude in a jeans jacket who I swear to God shit in his pants when all of a sudden I was inches away from his face playing drums in the air.

Tommy Lee

#77. Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the "Old One." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

Albert Einstein

#78. I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth.

Beyonce Knowles

#79. The actress playing Celia could ask why god had ever put her on earth.
and then the voice from the back of the theater could rumble: to reproduce. nothing else really interests me. all the rest is frippery.

Kurt Vonnegut

#80. This mortal life is our playing field. Our goal is to learn to love God and to extend that same love toward our fellowman. We are here to build, uplift, treat fairly, and encourage all of Heavenly Father's children.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#81. In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!

Alan Parsons

#82. Every James Brown cut makes a party get crazy. He's the god of all music. I always play different wild remixes of his songs because people start bugging out when they realise what I'm playing.

Afrika Bambaataa

#83. A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.

Neil Gaiman

#84. Perhaps you should consider your difficulty in getting past Wendlyn's naval defences to be a sign that you should stop playing at being a god."
"Playing?" The King smiled, his crooked teeth glowing yellow in the firelight. "I am not playing. And this is not a game.

Sarah J. Maas

#85. A lot of people think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing except being holy - and they don't find it very appealing! Thank God that is not what Heaven is like!

David Berg

#86. Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.

Francis Chan

#87. I never felt big enough playing Thor. And then people talk about you like you're 9-foot tall and 800 pounds. I'm well aware of the illusion. There's not a second where I go: Yeah, I'm a god.

Chris Hemsworth

#88. I had the privilege of playing an angel on 'Touched by an Angel' for many years - almost two decades, and we would deliver a message on the show. The message was that God loves them, and before filming every scene, we would come together and pray.

Roma Downey

#89. God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

Stephen King

#90. Playing someone drum 'n' bass for the first time in 'Pass Out' - they're like, 'Oh my God, what is this?' I'm having a lot of fun and a good time showcasing the music.

Tinie Tempah

#91. I'm just going to keep working. Spend more days in the gym, as possible. Just trying to get my game up, and just keep playing. And if it's in God's will for me to win, then I'll get it.

Dwight Howard

#92. You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Marianne Williamson

#93. But somehow, once you start playing behind the steering wheel of God, you realize just how powerful it is to be the imagination driving the natural world (64).

Kola Boof

#94. You and I are the players, God's our head coach, and we're all playing the biggest game of all.

Joe Gibbs

#95. Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#96. There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose ... There has been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.

Theodore Hesburgh

#97. Running doesn't just make me happy. Running keeps me alive. When I'm running-the blood pumping through my veins, the tunes playing in my ears, the muscles tightening on the inclines- the problems of the world disappear. It's just me, the sidewalk, and God.

Lisa Schroeder

#98. Our imagination is God's ingenious gift that hands us the privilege of romping and playing in realities that we can't see only because we've yet to create them.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#99. As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

Charles Spurgeon

#100. The reasons are likely rooted in religion. Playing around with God's creation is simply not allowed. Incidentally, in the past it was precisely the deeply religious people who said: Of course we're playing with God's creation, in fact we're perfecting it. This sort of thinking is frowned upon today.

Hans Von Storch