Quotes about god
god faces wraith
God's wraith is really only the face of love refused. Peter Kreeft
god writing men
Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.
god believe lovers
When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.
god color white
Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.
god destiny faces
Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face.
god faith peace
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
god immortal-life life-is
Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense! Rabindranath Tagore
god mean joy
It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.
god creating
God finds himself by creating.
god father moving
Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in their collective growth, with whom they seek their union of love as individuals, in whom they find their ideal of father, friend and beloved.
god night thinking
If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God. Ramakrishna
god heart men
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god running dream
The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.
god eye men
But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.
god shadow all-things
We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.
god play miracle
The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.
god eden apples
Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters with tears of ancient sorrow Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow. House and tenant go to ground, Lost in God, in Godhead found.
god country past
Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.
god nature men
The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.
god brother jesus
In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.
god art doe
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.
god courage men
There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.
god faith men
Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.
god sweet numbers
Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?
god brother doors
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
god heart fire
When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
god fool savages
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
god lying world
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
god rose soul
When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.
god self grace
Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
god parcel
I am a part and parcel of God.
god names lasts
God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
god running littles
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.