Quotes about god

"We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible."

Joubert, Joseph on god   

"Man proposes, but God disposes."

Kempis, Thomas on god
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"He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will."

Kempis, Thomas on god   

"Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do."

Kempis, Thomas on god
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"The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune."

Kempis, Thomas on god   

"There is no God but God."

Koran, The on god
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"I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found."

La Bruyere, Jean De on god   

"Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on god   

"Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God."

Law, William on god   

"God is only a great imaginative experience."

Lawrence, D. H. on god
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"I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?"

Lawrence, D. H. on god   

"God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image."

Layton, Irving on god   

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."

Lennon, John on god
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"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

Lewis, C. S. on god
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"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

Lincoln, Abraham on god
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"Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, Now cut that out! That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!"

Little, Paul on god   

"Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp."

Little, Paul on god   

"I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me."

Little, Paul on god   

"Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable."

Little, Paul on god   

"The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride."

Luther, Martin on god   

"I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans."

Macdonald, George on god
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"Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life."

Maclaren, Alexander on god   

"Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be."

Mairaux, Andre on god
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"Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe."

Maistre, Joseph De on god   

"God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters."

Mencken, H. L. on god   

"When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree."

Meyer, F. B. on god   

"God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on god   

"To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on god   

"If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides."

Montesquieu, Charles De on god
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"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

Mother Teresa on god
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"If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable."

Newton, John on god
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"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on god
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"Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on god
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"There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on god
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"Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us."

Norwich, Julian of on god   

"When men make gods, there is no God!"

O'Neill, Eugene on god   

"God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits."

Paley, William on god   

"God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits."

Paley, William on god   

"Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not."

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich on god   

"If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists."

Pascal, Blaise on god
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