GOD QUOTES XV

quotations about God

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

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Notebooks, Aug. 1, 1916


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

XENOCRATES

attributed, Personality: The Beginning and End of Metaphysics


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


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


I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The World as I See it

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God never made his work for man to mend.

JOHN DRYDEN

Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton, 1700

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God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

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

ANDRE GIDE

Autumn Leaves


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


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


Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

GEORGE LEONARD

The Silent Pulse


The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Blood Meridian

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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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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


It needed no divine revelation to assure us that God loves. The language of nature and the experience of our own hearts are an adequate witness to this truth, so simple as to be almost self-evident. That which gives to the Bible revelation of God's character its peculiar significance is the fact that it reveals him one who affords the highest exemplification of Christ's precept," Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you." The revelation of God's love, suffering for the sake of those that despise it, though so simple, is yet so august, so sublime, that our selfish hearts can not comprehend it, and our shallow philosophy obscures or denies it. Christ crucified is to-day as much as ever "unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;" as much as ever the power and wisdom of God to those that comprehend it.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths

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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


God is dead: but considering the state of the species Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Die frohliche Wissenschaft

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The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Literature and Dogma

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What shall I do, if all my love,
My hopes, my toil, are cast away,
And if there be no God above,
To hear and bless me when I pray?

ANNE BRONTE

The Doubter's Prayer

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It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to, but more so that God is the creative energy flowing between all states of consciousness. God is in the land beyond the mountains, but God is also in the mountains and in the valley of illusions cradled within the mountains. God is not one thing or another, rather God flows between and through all things.

ELIZABETH LESSER

The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure