6 Joseph Heller Quotes on God

Joseph Heller quotes on god

23. '[T]he God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.'

33. Whether God is dead or not hardly matters, for we would use him no differently anyway.

41. He [God] owes me an apology too- at the very least. I'm not saying I shouldn't have been punished for those sins I committed. I'm saying that the punishments he chose were inhuman. I wonder what favor I'd want. I think I may be afraid to ask for it. I'm afraid He won't grant it. I'm more afraid that He will. Wouldn't it be tragic to find out that He really has been here all this time?

58. 'If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?'

62. I imagine that God Himself frequently wants to feel like a king. Why else would He create the world?

63. God is a murderer, imagine that. I told you I had the best story in the Bible, didn't I? I have always known that He was. Sooner or later He murders us all, doesn't He, and we go back to the dust from which we came. So I'm no longer scared to defy him. All He can do is kill me.