God Quote by Mario Puzo — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind.”

“Pope Alexander smiled. He seemed more amused with the story than horrified. "The Baglioni are true believers," he said. "They believe in paradise. Such a great gift. How otherwise can man bear this moral life? Unfortunately, such a belief also gives evil men the courage to commit great crimes in the name of good and God.”

“I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.”

“Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”

“He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart.The heart was just a bloody motor.The head was meant to drive”

“Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.”

“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”

“…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don’t fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.”

“While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.”

“The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.”

“So the gods must mean something else,” said Jix.”

“I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.”