GOD QUOTES XV

quotations about God

"God is love," says the apostle. We might almost transpose the apothegm, and say "Love is God." That is, it is love which renders him worthy of our worship. It is not the power which made the worlds and allotted them their courses; it is not the wisdom which orders all of life, and suffers not even the minutest detail to escape his notice; it is not even those aesthetic qualities, which have produced in divinely-created forms of beauty the types of all art and all architecture, that render God worthy " to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing." It is that his love is such that nothing seems to him too sacred to be sacrificed to the welfare of others.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths

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God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

The Shack


God, to conceive him, intellect design'd;
At last, her Maker see, 'neath nature's vest!
A voice in silence whispers to the mind--
Who hath not heard that voice within his breast?

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"The Valley", Poetical Meditations


If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

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If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.

XENOCRATES

attributed, Personality: The Beginning and End of Metaphysics


God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

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God's voice was not in the earthquake,
Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Children of the Lord's Supper"


How things stand, is God.
God is, how things stand.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Notebooks, Aug. 1, 1916


God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

ANDRE GIDE

Autumn Leaves


God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

JOSEPH ROUX

Meditations of a Parish Priest

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God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.

JOSEPH ALEXANDER LEIGHTON

"Fichte's Conception of God", The Philosophical Review, vol. 4, 1895


Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,
But God to man doth speak in solitude.

JOHN STUART BLACKIE

Highland Solitude

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I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

letter to Theo van Gogh, Jul. 1880

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Some would deny any legitimate use of the word God because it has been misused so much. Certainly it is the most burdened of all human words. Precisely for that reason it is the most imperishable and unavoidable. And how much weight has all erroneous talk about God's nature and works (although there never has been nor can be any such talk that is not erroneous) compared with the one truth that all men who have addressed God really meant him? For whoever pronounces the word God and really means Thou, addresses, no matter what his delusion, the true Thou of his life that cannot be restricted by any other and to whom he stands in a relationship that includes all others.

MARTIN BUBER

I and Thou


Sometimes you get the sense that the Creator is getting to that point of "Yeah, we might have to reboot."

TIM ALLEN

Esquire, Nov. 2011


Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.

JOSé SARAMAGO

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ


There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.

STEVE ALLEN

Steve Allen on the Bible


They say that God is watching everyone all the time, so he'd always get to see his jokes play out. If so, he's laughing his butt off, assuming God has a butt, which is unlikely, since butts are also an obvious practical joke.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics


We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.
Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world -- of all living things.
The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand.
Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have.

JOHN STEINBECK

Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Dec. 10, 1962


We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts