GOD QUOTES VIII

quotations about God

To know the face of God is to know madness.

LEOBEN CONOY

"Flesh and Bone", Battlestar Galactica


The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

lecture, Nov. 18, 1862


The nearer the Church the further from God.

LANCELOT ANDREWES

Sermon on the Nativity before James I

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The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

BLAISE PASCAL

Thoughts

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Socrates and Plato agree that God is that which is one, hath its original from its own self, is of a singular subsistence, is one only being perfectly good; all these various names signifying goodness do all centre in mind; hence God is to be understood as that mind and intellect, which is a separate idea, that is to say, pure and unmixed of all matter, and not mingled with anything subject to passions.

PLUTARCH

"What is God?", Essays & Miscellanies

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Nature only shows us the tail of the lion. I am convinced, however, that the lion is attached to it, even though he cannot reveal himself directly because of his enormous size.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein


If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

DAN SIMMONS

The Rise of Endymion


I have too much respect for the idea of God to hold Him responsible for such an absurd world.

GEORGES DUHAMEL

The Pasquier Chronicles


God's image is in every man, high or low--a road puddle holds the moon as well as the sea.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


God Himself has no right to be a tyrant.

WILLIAM GODWIN

Sketches of History

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All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High above all he sits, sublimer than mountains, grander than storms, sweeter than blossoms and tender fruits, nobler than lords, truer than parents, more loving than lovers. His feet tread the lowest places of the earth; but his head is above all glory, and everywhere he is supreme.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


There is no particular way that God wants you to worship God. Nor, in fact, does God need to be worshipped at all. God's ego is not so fragile that She must require you to bow down to Her in fearful reverence, or grovel before Him in earnest supplication, in order to find you worthy of receiving blessings. What kind of Supreme Being would need to do this? What kind of God would this be?

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

The New Revelations: A Conversation with God

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It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Stranger in a Strange Land


I now conceive of God as in his universe. I conceive of creation as a growth. I conceive of him as making the universe somewhat as our spirit makes our body, shaping and changing and developing it by processes from within. The figures from the finite to the infinite are imperfect and misleading, but this is the figure which best represents to me my own thought of God's relation to the universe: Not that of an engineer who said one morning, " Go to, I will make a world," and in six days, or six thousand years, or six million thousand years, made one by forming it from without, as a potter forms the clay with skilful hand; but that of a Spirit who has been forever manifesting himself in the works of creation and beneficence in all the universe, one little work of whose wisdom and beneficence we are and we see. He who would see God must use the faculty with which God is seen; and if he would do this, he must let men who are rich in the faculty which perceives the invisible, -- which looks not at the things which are seen and are temporal, but at the things which are not seen and are eternal, -- guide, teach, inspire him.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Seeking After God

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

History of Woman Suffrage


God's nature is medicinal to ours. There are no troubles which befall our suffering hearts, for which there is not in God a remedy, if only we rise to receive it.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you -- even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.

NEIL GAIMAN

American Gods


God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Go Down


There's something infinitely sad about little girls who grow up understanding (usually unconsciously) that if God is male, it's because male is the most valuable thing to be. This belief resonates in a thousand hidden ways in their lives. It slowly cripples girl children, and it cripples female adults.

SUE MONK KIDD

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

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O thou mighty mind! whose powerful word
Said, thus let all things be, and thus they were!

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD

"A Summer Evening's Meditation"

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