“If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: 'I Can Only Imagine' Breakout Star Madeline Carroll: 'God has Plans for the Gifts He Gives Us' https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2018/march/i-can-only-imagine-breakout-star-madeline-carroll-god-has-plans-for-the-gifts-he-gives-us (March 27, 2018)
“If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
2013-10-13
Super Soul Sunday
TV
OWN
http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/Soul-to-Soul-with-Diana-Nyad-Im-an-Atheist-Whos-In-Awe-Video, quoted in * 2013-10-15
Why Oprah's Anti-Atheist Bias Hurts So Much
David Niose
Our Humanity, Naturally
Psychology Today
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-humanity-naturally/201310/why-oprahs-anti-atheist-bias-hurts-so-much
in response to endurance swimmer Diana Nyad saying she can "weep with the beauty of this universe and be moved by all of humanity".
Michael Crichton book State of Fear
State of Fear (2004)
Context: I think that you cannot eliminate religion from the psyche of mankind. If you suppress it in one form, it merely emerges in another form. Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #36 [@2:32:37]
Podcast
Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter
I Don't Believe You, written by Pink and Max Martin
Song lyrics, Funhouse (2008)
“And do you believe in God?"
"I do."
"But you didn't think a robot would, right?”
Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) Polish science fiction author
"Right."
"The Inquest" in More Tales of Pirx the Pilot (1983)
“Do you believe in God?
I, I believe in nothing but God!”
Frederick Franck (1909–2006) Dutch painter
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 65
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo, V1
“I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.”
Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe