Quotes about god
god next fear-god
I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not. Saadi
god worship slave
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
god-love enough presence-of-love
Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself. Rumi
god spiritual giving
So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality. Susan Sarandon
god duty consequence
Duty is ours; consequences are God's. Stonewall Jackson
god emotional soul
As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down - but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not. Stewart Brand
god real ignorance
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature. Robert Green Ingersoll
god thinking want
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
god jesus believe
They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
god men honest
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
god destiny farce
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.
god religious hypocrite
A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.
god religious men
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.
god host forget
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget! Rudyard Kipling
god men shame
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. Samuel Johnson
god ramadan
Ramadan makes you closer to God. Saddam Hussein
god kindness needs
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty. Rowan Williams
god reason divine
I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him. Ronald Reagan
god mother purpose
My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best.
god men values
A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself. Robertson Davies
god doctors medical
God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted. Robert Owen
god atheist people
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion. Robert M. Pirsig
god crazy world
God makes the world not out of necessity but by a divine Whim, and the world he makes is a whimsically romantic place. We're all crazy about each other because we're made in the image of Someone who's been crazy about us. Robert Farrar Capon
god men antigone
Reason is God's crowning gift to man. Sophocles
god ifs
If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody. Stephen Levine
god baby flower
There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at a flower, its radiance, its fragrance, its stillness is another moment's experience of something deeper within. When we hold a baby, when we hear extraordinary music, when we look into the eyes of a great saint, what draws us is that deep homesickness for our true nature, for the peace and healing that is our birthright. This homesickness for God directs us toward the healing we took birth for.
god looks earth
If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love. Sophie Swetchine
god atoms may
I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.
god action forget
We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
god christian moving
The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
god-love unhappiness
The only unhappiness is not to love God. Thomas Merton
god kindness compassion
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
god spiritual truth
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our life, which is inaccessable to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.