“No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door
And they say "We've got some bad news, sir."”
Regina Spektor (1980) American singer-songwriter and pianist
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“God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.”
Describing the sound inside a spacecraft propelled by nuclear explosions, in Footfall (1986)
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“A man knocking on the door of a brothel is looking for God.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
The source is actually a 1945 book by Bruce Marshall, The World, The Flesh, and Father Smith, in which he says, "...the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God."
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