Creativity Quote by John Lennon

God doesn’t appear here as comfort or cosmic manager, but as a yardstick. Lennon’s line is blunt in that very Lennon way: it refuses the polite version of faith and jumps straight to the psychological function. “Concept” shrinks God from deity to idea, something human-made and therefore adjustable, arguable, disposable. The sting is in “measure” - not “heal,” not “explain,” but quantify. Pain becomes the real constant, the thing we can reliably count on; God is the tool we reach for when suffering needs a shape big enough to hold it.

The subtext is a critique of how belief can turn anguish into meaning, and how meaning can be mistaken for relief. Lennon isn’t simply mocking religion; he’s exposing a bargain: when life hurts, we reach for narratives that make the hurt legible. That can be soothing, but it can also keep pain in circulation, giving it a sacred frame that resists resolution. The line’s power comes from its inversion of religious hierarchy. Pain isn’t a test from God; God is a response to pain.

Context matters: “God” sits inside Plastic Ono Band (1970), Lennon’s post-Beatles rupture and primal-scream era, steeped in therapy, disillusionment, and a public break from inherited pieties. Coming from a pop idol, it lands less like a philosopher’s thesis and more like a confession shouted into a microphone: if your faith is real, what happens when the person you trusted to sing you through the dark says the dark is the point?