"There was nothing wrong with shouting at God"
About this Quote
The phrasing matters: "nothing wrong" sounds like a rebuttal to someone else's judgment. The implied scene is a world where people equate faith with quiet compliance, where anger equals failure. Duvall flips that. Shouting becomes a form of engagement, a refusal to go numb. The subtext is almost parental: if God is real enough to love, God is real enough to blame.
It also works because it rejects the clean narrative arc we expect from religious language. It's not "I found peace". It's "I stayed in the fight". That posture has cultural range: from biblical lament to Southern stoicism to the modern therapeutic permission slip to feel what you feel. In a moment when public religion often performs certainty, Duvall's line gives doubt and fury a kind of dignity. It argues that faith isn't proved by calm - it's tested by contact.
Quote Details
| Topic | God |
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| Source | Help us find the source |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Duvall, Robert. (2026, January 16). There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-was-nothing-wrong-with-shouting-at-god-134564/
Chicago Style
Duvall, Robert. "There was nothing wrong with shouting at God." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-was-nothing-wrong-with-shouting-at-god-134564/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"There was nothing wrong with shouting at God." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-was-nothing-wrong-with-shouting-at-god-134564/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.








