GOD QUOTES XXIII

quotations about God

People, especially young people, don't have enough God in their lives.

PRINCE

"Inside Prince's bizarre life at Paisley Park: This is what happened when we visited the music icon", The Mirror, April 21, 2016


The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.

EMMA GOLDMAN

"The Philosophy of Atheism," Mother Jones, Feb. 1916


The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the athiest who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

MARCEL PROUST

The Guermantes Way


While the root of all the absurdities that torment the world, belief in God, remains intact, it will never fail to bring forth new offspring.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

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Do you not see the hand of God, which gives harmony, light, and love to the world? Do not the mountains, in the blue cloud of incense, sing their hymn of glory?

LEONID ANDREYEV

He Who Gets Slapped


God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Gods always behave like the people who make them.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Tell My Horse


My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning, and may be many; but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one. The more you love and trust Him, the nearer you will feel to Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women


The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything.
God is the ground, the substance,
the teaching, the teacher,
the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.

JULIAN OF NORWICH

Meditations with Julian of Norwich

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There's only one response God's got to anything you might care to tell Him--that your brother's dying of AIDS, for example, and that you'd really appreciate it if He could help out with a bit of the old razzle-dazzle--and that response is: Yeah, I know.

GLEN DUNCAN

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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

SRI AUROBINDO

Thoughts and Glimpses

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God conducts all his campaigns upon analogous principles. The emancipation of mankind is always wrought out by a forlorn hope. God is not on the side of the strong battalions. In moral conflicts, at least, numbers never count. Only the few have faith in God and courage in his cause; and faith and courage alone gain the battle.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths

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God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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I do not believe in God, but I am afraid of Him.

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

Love in the Time of Cholera


Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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No actual tyrant known to history has ever been guilty of one-hundredth of the crimes, massacres, and other atrocities attributed to the Deity in the Bible.

STEVE ALLEN

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What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.

STEPHEN HAWKING

Der Spiegel, Oct. 17, 1988


Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Sea


God is either powerless, stupid or he doesn't give a shit.

PHILIP K. DICK

Valis


He that trusts in the Lord with all his heart, does not indeed expect, that God will do that for him which he has never promised; far less that he will be favorable unto him, in what is contrary to his revealed will. But, first, he sees that his matters are good and right; and then he commits the keeping of his soul unto the faithful creator; who is a buckler to them alone that walked uprightly. If he is called of God to any difficult duty, for which he finds himself unequal, he persuades himself that God will command his strength, and work in him both to will and to do of his good pleasure; and out of weakness he is made strong.

WILLIAM MCEWEN

"On Trusting God", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity