GOD QUOTES II
quotations about God
A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Without God, our reason is an accident of the cosmos, as ultimately inconsequential as the spinning of the planet or the pulling of the tides. Reason becomes unimportant, and hence untenable. Without God we have only belief, and yet we are left with nothing to believe in.
BERNARD BECKETT
August
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
LEO TOLSTOY
diary
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him thou shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name. He is thy praise and thy God.
DEUTERONOMY 10:20
It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Christmas Train
What we attribute to God as his excellency and perfection, that we should propose to ourselves as matter of practice and imitation.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Island
God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God.
ÉDOUARD RENÉ DE LABOULAYE
Abdallah
The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.
PHILIP YANCEY
Disappointment With God
But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum ... an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Simulacra and Simulation
All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Their Eyes Were Watching God
I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring.
WILLIAM ARCHER
William Archer as Rationalist: A Collection of His Heterodox Writings
Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.
FERNANDO PESSOA
The Book of Disquiet
God speaks to souls through words uttered by pious people, by sermons or good books, and in many other such ways. Sometimes he calls souls by means of sickness or troubles, or by some truth He teaches them during prayer, for tepid as they may be in seeking Him, yet God holds them very dear.
TERESA OF AVILA
The Interior Castle
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.
TIMOTHY LEARY
"Leary calls LSD sacrament," The Tech, Nov. 8, 1966
The experience of personal communication with God is as universal as the human race. Appreciation of the divine presence is more common than appreciation of art, music, or literature. Men and women who do not respond to music, see no beauty in pictures, never read, and could not understand literature if it were read to them, yet find comfort in sorrow, strength in temptation, courage in danger, and added joy in their enjoyments from the sense of a Father's presence.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Seeking After God
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
SYLVIA PLATH
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Confessions
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPER
Olney Hymns
Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their fellow-beings, have not failed to attribute to the Universal Cause a character analogous with their own. The image of this invisible, mysterious Being is more or less excellent and perfect -- resembles more or less its original -- in proportion to the perfection of the mind on which it is impressed.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
"Essay on Christianity"