“I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert , book Eat, Pray, Love

Variant: I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

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American writer 1969

Rachel Scott (1981–1999) American murder victim

As quoted in No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine https://books.google.com/books?id=kI4YwhBD7FgC&pg=PA150 (2002), by Brooks Brown and Rob Merritt, New York: Lantern Books, p. 150

“When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.”

Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player

From A Conversation with Clemente, hosted by Sam Nover (aired October 8, 1972 on WIIC-TV in Pittsburgh); reproduced in Roberto Clemente: A Video Tribute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnyDAZl7lpk&list=PLPPJ9g3R1ziv1H23L0rQAu_-9c7cL2qzZ#t=56 (1973)
Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1972</big>

“When I go to the house of God I do not want amusement; I want the doctrine which is according to godliness. I want to hear the remedy against the harassing of my guilt and the disorder of my affections. I want to be led from weariness and disappointment to that goodness which filleth the hungry soul. I want to have light upon the mystery of Providence; to be taught how the judgments of the Lord are right; how I shall be prepared for duty and for trial; how I may fear God all the days of my life, and close them in peace.”

John M. Mason (1770–1829) American Doctor of Divinity

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 150.

“God money I'll do anything for you.
God money just tell me what you want me to.
God money nail me up against the wall.
God money don't want everything he wants it all.”

Trent Reznor (1965) American musician

Head Like a Hole, from Pretty Hate Machine (1990).
Song lyrics

“God became man in order to make me God; therefore I want to be changed completely into pure God”

Catherine of Genoa (1447–1510) Italian author and nurse

Ibid., P.109.

“Where're you going Ra?
Take me with you Ra…
You're such a busy God
I wish you could stay
I only want to play and play
But you're such a busy god
and I'm such a mortal Ra”

Happy Rhodes (1965) American singer-songwriter

"Ra Is A Busy God" - Live performance at New Haven, CT (4 April 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmbHQ0rwCBQ
Many Worlds Are Born Tonight (1998)

“He just wanted to play robot, for God's sake. Was that so wrong?”

John Green book An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 20
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that.”

Thomas Nagel book The Last Word

The Last Word, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 130-131.
Context: In speaking of the fear of religion, I don’t mean to refer to the entirely reasonable hostility toward certain established religions and religious institutions, in virtue of their objectionable moral doctrines, social policies, and political influence. Nor am I referring to the association of many religious beliefs with superstition and the acceptance of evident empirical falsehoods. I am talking about something much deeper—namely, the fear of religion itself. I speak from experience, being strongly subject to this fear myself: I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that.

“I want to bow my head as if the all pervading God is scolding me. I know that i am a sinner.”

Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) Nepali poet

सुस्तरी श्वास फेर

“I don’t need to be reminded that we’re up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we’re the gods-damned sharks.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

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