““Can’t you understand what an important task we’ve been entrusted with?”
“By whom, or what? God? This whole experience has made me agree even more with Camus: if there is a God, I despise Him.””

— Ken Grimwood , book Replay

Source: Replay (1986), Chapter 11 (p. 149)

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American writer 1944–2003

Ken Grimwood book Replay

“By whom, or what? God? This whole experience has made me agree even more with Camus: if there is a God, I despise Him.”
Source: Replay (1986), Chapter 11 (p. 149)

“I shall never, under any circumstances, agree to a representative form of government because I consider it harmful to the people whom God has entrusted to my care.”

Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918) Emperor of All the Russias, Grand Duke of Finland and King of Poland By the Grace of God

As quoted in https://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/quotations-imperial-russia-tsarism/
1890s

“In my experience, the more you know of the gods, the more you know what you cannot understand.”

Megan Whalen Turner book A Conspiracy of Kings

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A Conspiracy of Kings (2010)

“Hussein stated it is not only important what people say or think about him now but what they think in the future, 500 or 1000 years from now. The most important thing, however, is what God thinks. If God believes something, He will convince the people to agree. If God does not agree, it does not matter what the people think.”

Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) Iraqi politician and President

Interview by FBI Senior Special Agent George L. Piro (7 February 2004); National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 279 http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB279/index.htm.
Attributed

“My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.”

Tony Kushner (1956) American playwright and screenwriter

Source: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

“God on high
Looks graciously on him whom triumph's hour
Has made not pitiless.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 951–952 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)

“Our culture idolizes athletes, and God has really blessed my career. But at the end of the day, you want something that's eternal. We were made for so much more than fame or power, and coming to that realization has really made me say, "God, you know that’s best for me and that's what I want, too."”

Christina Wirth (1987) American basketball player

Friendship, Faith and Free Throws: Two professional basketball players to become full-time Catholic missionaries http://site.focus.org/news-for-you/february/friendship-faith-freethrows.html (2013)

“When I experienced what was going on first hand, I just got sucked into the whole thing. Thank God I did. I met some amazing people and, hopefully, I’ve changed the lives of a lot of children. Just as important, I think it’s been an incredible growing and learning experience for me.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

About her work in Malawi
Celebrity Parade With Jeanne Wolf, ABC, 2008-06-27 http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Story?id=5251905,

“In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

“God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

““Can’t you understand what an important task we’ve been entrusted with?”
“By whom, or what? God? This whole experience has made me agree even more with Camus: if there is a God, I despise Him.””

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