Preston and England legend Sir Tom Finney
Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 215
Variant: I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.
Source: Vampire Academy
Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 4, p. 52
2000s, At First Sight (2005)
“He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.”
Source: Stop All The Clocks
On the aftermath of her suicide attempt, p. 160.
Autobiography
This has also appeared in paraphrased form as: "If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished."
The Paris Review interview (1981)
Introducing John F. Kennedy in 1960, as quoted in Adlai Stevenson and The World: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson (1977) by John Bartlow Martin, p. 549
