Quotes about god
god thinking world
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God! Andre Breton
god christian giving-up
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this. Thomas Huxley
god
For God is like a skilfull Geometrician. Thomas Browne
god art nature
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
god disease
Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves. Thomas Sydenham
god each-day way
The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day. Thomas S. Monson
god children littles
Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult. Thomas Reid
god delay rewards
God's delays are not God's denials. Robert H. Schuller
god atheist philosophy
...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. Robert Anton Wilson
god thinking people
And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations. T. D. Jakes
god feelings fallen
When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again. T. S. Eliot
god believe people
I can't bring myself to believe in a God with a personality like my own. I base that on the paucity of lightning attacks on people who deserve it. Scott Adams
god pain humorous
Nothing like a little chest pain to restore your faith. Ray Romano
god support independence
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. Thomas Jefferson
god country war
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
god ends hard
Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end. Robert Herrick
god pure
God is pure, and the same to all. Swami Vivekananda
god names different
It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.
god flower names
In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God's feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.
god ocean rivers
God is one the paths to reach him (religions) are many - just as different rivers, originating in different mountains, traverse different paths, flowing straight or crooked, and at last join the ocean. He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.
god art pride
There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick - thou art All - in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee."
god principles creation
Since everything emanates from God, he is the embodied principle in every being. Each one of us is made from God. Tat twam asi - "You are That One" who is eternally blissful, that one principle manifesting itself as this variety of Creation.
god soul spirituality
Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.
god men inspire
It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God.
god soul atman
Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or end, the all pure, omnipotent and omnipresent Atman!
god soul spirituality
Spirituality is the science of the Soul.
god brother animal
Weak or wicked, great or small, in men and in animal, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but in the manifestation. Between me and the smallest animal the difference is only of manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.
god literature sacred
I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen ... Simone de Beauvoir
god views giving
In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it. Simone Weil
god contemplating one-thing
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
god facts god-is-there
We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.
god long heaven
We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.
god wall communication
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.