GOD QUOTES XII

quotations about God

As the innermost Essence of God is self-existence, so the cosmos (by which we mean everything not-God) is essentially dependent on God as its first and sole cause. The universe is no ens a se; it is entirely ab alio. This dependency is co-existent with the universe in all its phases. From the moment of its creation down to the hour of its consummation the universe is and remains essentially ens ab alio. It depends on God for its being and operation, and would sink back into nothingness without Him.

JOSEPH POHLE

God: The Author of Nature and the Supernatural


Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

COVENTRY PATMORE

The Rod, the Root, and the Flower


The way to God is by our selves.

PHINEAS FLETCHER

The Purple Island

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Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


I think everyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

MICHAEL CRICHTON

Next

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Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover


God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"Le Tombeau d'une mère", Harmonies


The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky -- as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment. The big eye was a glutton for great theater. The big eye was indifferent as to whether the Earthling shows were comedy, tragedy, farce, satire, athletics, or vaudeville. Its demand, which Earthlings apparently found as irresistible as gravity, was that the shows be great. The demand was so powerful that Earthlings did almost nothing but perform for it, night and day.... The big eye was the only audience that Earthlings really cared about.

KURT VONNEGUT

The Sirens of Titan


Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long


God, whom the wisest men acknowledge to be a power uneffable, and virtue infinite; a light by abundant clarity invisible; an understanding which itself can only comprehend; an essence eternal and spiritual, of absolute pureness and simplicity; was and is pleased to make himself known by the work of the world: in the wonderful magnitude whereof, (all which he embraceth, filleth, and sustaineth,) we behold the image of that glory which cannot be measured, and withal, that one, and yet universal nature which cannot be defined. In the glorious lights of heaven we perceive a shadow of his divine countenance.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

The First Part of the History of the World: Intreating of the Beginning and First Ages of the Same


If God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty -- by ceasing to exist.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

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Remember the perfections of that God whom you worship, that he is a Spirit, and therefore to be worshipped in spirit and truth; and that he is most great and terrible, and therefore to be worshipped with seriousness and reverence, and not to be dallied with, or served with toys or lifeless lip-service; and that he is most holy, pure, and jealous, and therefore to be purely worshipped; and that he is still present with you, and all things are naked and open to him with whom we have to do. The knowledge of God, and the remembrance of his all-seeing presence, are the most powerful means against hypocrisy.

RICHARD BAXTER

Christian Ethics

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You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

ANNE LAMOTT

Bird by Bird

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There is no duty in religion more generally agreed on, nor more justly required by God almighty, than a perfect submission to his will in all things: Nor is there any disposition of mind that can either please him more or become us better, than that of being satisfied with all he gives, and contented with all he takes away; none, I am sure, can be of more honour to God, nor more easy to ourselves; for if we consider him as our maker we cannot contend with him; if as our father we ought not to distrust him; so that we may be confident, whatever he does is intended for our good; and whatever happens that we may interpret otherwise, yet we cannot get nothing by repining, nor save anything by resisting.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


God speaks silently, he speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.

CARYLL HOUSELANDER

This War is the Passion

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It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

SIGMUND FREUD

The Future of an Illusion


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

Stick to Drawing Comics


God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars--
If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them
Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears.

ROBINSON JEFFERS

"The Inhumanist"

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Most sermons sound to me like commercials -- but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Neurotic's Notebook


I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

The Book of Hours