Best quotes by Frances Farmer on God

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• ‟ I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

  - Frances Farmer
  

• ‟ I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

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• ‟ I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

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• ‟ But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

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• ‟ I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

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• ‟ I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

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• ‟ I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

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• ‟ It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

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• ‟ That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

  - Frances Farmer