Quotes about god

"It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him."

Coder, S. Maxwell on god   

"There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God."

Connolly, Cyril on god
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"We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart."

Cotvos on god
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"If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination."

Daly, Mary on god   

"Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all."

Daly, Mary on god
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"In His will is our peace."

Dante Alighieri on god
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"One and God make a majority."

Douglass, Frederick on god   

"Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me."

Eckhart, Meister on god   

"To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God."

Eckhart, Meister on god
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"The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God."

Eckhart, Meister on god
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"Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door."

Eckhart, Meister on god   

"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."

Eckhart, Meister on god
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"God does not play dice with the universe."

Einstein, Albert on god
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"God is clever, but not dishonest."

Einstein, Albert on god
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"God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world."

Einstein, Albert on god
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"'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on god
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"The dice of God are always loaded."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on god
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"There is a crack in everything God has made."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on god
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"God hath entrusted me with myself."

Epictetus on god
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"And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin."

Flecker, James Elroy on god   

"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."

Ford, Henry on god
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"The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father."

Freud, Sigmund on god   

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

Frost, Robert on god
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"God is a verb."

Fuller, Buckminster on god   

"Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on god   

"The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God."

Gandhi, Mahatma on god
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"God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it."

Gulbranson, Gary on god   

"God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit."

Haggai, John on god
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"The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will."

Haggai, John on god
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"Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself."

Haweis, H. R. on god
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"God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,"

Heed, Wilfrid on god   

"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."

Heraclitus on god   

"Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path."

Herbert, George on god   

"To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws."

Hoffer, Eric on god   

"Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon?"

Hoffman, Oswald C. on god   

"I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there."

Hollingdale, R. J. on god   

"Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all."

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von on god   

"Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness."

James, William on god   

"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."

Jarry, Alfred on god   

"Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him."

John of the Cross, St. on god