The Color Purple (The Color Purple Collection, #1)

by Alice Walker

But it ain’t easy, trying to do without God. Even if you know he ain’t there, trying to do without him is a strain.

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

Paradigm shift

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it.

Yes. Universal Christ.

I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you’ve found It.

God love all them feelings. That’s some of the best stuff God did. And when you know God loves ’em you enjoys ’em a lot more.

I wish I had known a God like this when I was 17. Instead, I felt like a sinner to even feel good in my body and I turned from God for a long time. Finding my way back to a God who made every part of me, my fellows, and everything and said it is good.