Why Is God So Cruel Quotes

#1. Maybe it was a miracle that had placed Elijah in Dr. Carter's care. Most likely it was proof that God was cruel.

Lisa Henry

#2. The world could be as small as it was cruel. She wondered at God sometimes, his schemes, his plans, his plots, his sense of order. Maybe he was just like the Bible - beautiful and overwritten and redundant and badly in need of editing.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#3. He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel - they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing.

Stephen King

#4. A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

George Santayana

#5. Obligation
They cannot ask for kindness
Or for mercy plead,
Yet cruel is our blindness
Which does not see their need,
World-over, town or city,
God trusts us with this task:
To give our love and pity
To those who cannot ask.

Edgar A. Guest

#6. Although your past has been painful devastating or cruel God has promised to be a Restorer and a Redeemer. He says He will "give us gladness in proportion to our former misery " and "replace the evil years with good".

Sue Augustine

#7. How could a homeless kid have a dad who was the god of abundance and wealth? Talk about a cruel joke.

Rick Riordan

#8. God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#9. It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

#10. Man had created God in his own image, not the other way around. He had done it through sheer terror, and who could blame him? Unfortunately he had made too good a job. The god he had invented was just as cruel and careless as man himself. Not a deity to whom one should seriously address a prayer.

Richard Herley

#11. 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?

C.S. Lewis

#12. God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways

Penn Jillette

#13. According to some Christian teachings, Jesus and God ascended above the sun, the moon and the stars leaving us to be slaughtered by Satan, and then told us to come and seek them, where it would never be possible for any human to reach. What kind of a God would be so cruel to His children?

Nicky Verster

#14. When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.

A.B. Simpson

#15. If you think your desires are selfish or cruel, hate yourself. If you think the world unjust, then hate your god.

Katherine Pine

#16. What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.

Bartolome De Las Casas

#17. All-good, like the vain, capricious, cruel God of Job? With all of eternity at His disposal, what fiendish new tortures might He not devise? A limited

William Peter Blatty

#18. I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.

Gary Numan

#19. I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

Alanis Morissette

#20. He thought of death in its infinite groanings, of Aztecs ripping out living hearts and of cancer and three-year-olds buried alive and he wondered whether God was alien and cruel, but then remembered Beethoven and the dappling of things and "Hurrah for Karamazov" and kindness. He

William Peter Blatty

#21. It is because people live in the things they possess instead of in their relationship to God that God seems at times to be cruel.

Grace Livingston Hill

#22. Nay, this village isn't yer sanctuary from the cruel world. It's God Almighty. He's the only one who can protect ye.

Jennifer Hudson Taylor

#23. Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#24. Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

Jacqueline Carey

#25. Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.

Bernard Cornwell

#26. What mean and cruel things men do for the love of God.

W. Somerset Maugham

#27. You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?

Stephen King

#28. If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#29. Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

Norman Vincent Peale

#30. Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.

Tupac Shakur