Complex sentence: Sympathetic toward Evan, God tells Joan that perhaps it is an opportunity for him, and explains that he himself does not give things but only the opportunity by which to obtain things, citing togetherness of families as one of these things.
Split into simpler sentences: Sympathetic toward Evan, God tells Joan that perhaps it is an opportunity for him. God then explains that he himself does not give things but only the opportunity by which to obtain things, citing togetherness of families as one of these things.