GOD QUOTES XV

quotations about God

We consider the Lord's express declarations concerning himself. There is a majesty in the passages of holy writ, that relate to the natural perfections of God, which vastly exceeds whatever is admired as sublime in Pagan writers. Jehovah speaks of himself, "as the high and lofty One, who inhabiteth eternity;" "heaven is his throne, and the earth his footstool;" "the heaven of heavens cannot contain him;" all "nations before Him are as nothing, they are counted to him as less than nothing and vanity;" "from everlasting to everlasting he is God;" "the almighty, the all-sufficient God:" "His wisdom is infinite;" "there is no searching of his understanding;" "He knoweth all things; he searcheth the hearts of all the children of men;" "yea, knoweth their thoughts afar off;" "there is no fleeing from his presence;" "the light and darkness to him are both alike;" "He dwelleth in light inaccessible; no man hath seen or can see him;" "He doeth what he will in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth;" "His is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory for ever;" "He is most blessed for evermore;" "for with him is no change or shadow of turning." These, and numberless other declarations, expressly and emphatically ascribe eternity, self-existence omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, immutability, incomprehensible greatness and majesty, and essential felicity and glory, in full perfection, to the Lord our God.

THOMAS SCOTT

"On the Scripture Character of God", Essays on the Most Important Subjects in Religion


To believe there is a God is to believe the existence of all possible Good and Perfection in the Universe: And it is to be resolved upon this--that things either are, or finally shall be, as they should be.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night.... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He rewarding me? Did He actively watch me or take me for granted like a fish you don't notice until it's floating on the surface of the tank?

DAVID SEDARIS

Naked


When the gods know that a god hath fallen,
With this kindly feeling
They do encourage him--
Be thou a god again and again.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Iti-Vuttaka


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 great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.

GORE VIDAL

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire


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


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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On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God,
Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


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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God may be distinguished, but not divided from the World. World without God were an effect without a cause; but God without World were a cause without an effect.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


God is a foreman with certain definite views
Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.

SEAMUS HEANEY

Docker

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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


If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.

WILLIAM LANE CRAIG

God?: A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist

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

ANDRE GIDE

Autumn Leaves


God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

Sonnets from the Portuguese

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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


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


If the consciousness of God is possible to all healthful souls, why are so many men and women without this consciousness? There are men and women, not a few, who do not want God. They would be very glad to have God if he were always on their side; glad to have God if he would always do what they want him to do. But a supreme will, a masterful will, a will to which they must conform, they do not want.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Seeking After 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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