Octavia Butler - God Quotes

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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

Octavia Butler
A victim of God may,
Through learning adaption,
Become a partner of God,
A victim of God may,
Through forethought and planning,
Become a shaper of God.
Or a victim of God may,
Through shortsightedness and fear,
Remain God's victim,
God's plaything,
God's prey.

Octavia Butler
Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina

Octavia Butler
We were snatched away and given alone into the hands of people who believed that it was their duty to break us and remake us in the Christian American image. And, of course, breaking people is much easier than putting them together again.
So much agony caused, so much evil done in God's name.

Octavia Butler
All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
Is Change.

God
Is Change.

Octavia Butler
A lot of people seem to believe in a big-daddy-God or a big-cop-God or a big-king-God. They believe in a kind of superperson. A few believe God is another word for nature. And nature turns out to mean just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of.

Octavia Butler
In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Octavia Butler
Your God doesn't care about you at all, Travis said.
All the more reason to care about myself and others.

Octavia Butler
Create no images of God.
Accept the images
that God has provided.
They are everywhere,
in everything.
... The universe
is God's self-portrait.

Octavia Butler