GOD QUOTES VIII

quotations about God

To know the face of God is to know madness.

LEOBEN CONOY

"Flesh and Bone", Battlestar Galactica


God's nature is medicinal to ours. There are no troubles which befall our suffering hearts, for which there is not in God a remedy, if only we rise to receive it.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Each man creates god in his own image.

MORDECAI RICHLER

Son of a Smaller Hero


The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Thoughts," The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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They say that God is a comedian playing to an audience that's just afraid to laugh.

KYLE

8 Simple Rules...for Dating My Teenage Daughter


There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

FRANK HERBERT

Dune Messiah


Though cares and sorrows e'er must come,
Though heart be rent,
I know that God will give me strength,
When mine is spent.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"The Peace That Passeth Understanding"


Nature only shows us the tail of the lion. I am convinced, however, that the lion is attached to it, even though he cannot reveal himself directly because of his enormous size.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein


As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

"Does God exist?", Salon, October 2, 2011


The best notion we can conceive of God, may be, that he is to the creation what the soul is to the body.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE

Essays on Men and Manners


However many years life might last, no one could ever wish for a better friend than God.

TERESA OF AVILA

The Interior Castle

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As God contains all good things, He must also contain a sense of playfulness -- a gift he has shared with Creatures other than ourselves, as witness the tricks Crows play, and the sportiveness of Squirrels, and the frolicking of Kittens.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Year of the Flood


What were a God who only gave the world a push from without, or let it spin around His finger? I look for a God who moves the world from within, who fosters nature in Himself, Himself in nature; so that naught of all that lives and moves and has its being in Him ever forgets His force or His spirit.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

"Phoœmion"

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God's whole nature moves toward the man who wants to be free from sin, as broadly and irresistibly as the summer moves from the south toward the north.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


All nations believe the gods to be governed by a king; for men, who have made the gods after their own image, are ever hasty in ascribing to these celestial beings, human manners and human institutions.

ARISTOTLE

Politics


Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator,
Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names:
And without having need to hear thy word,
In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"Prayer", Poetical Meditations


In affirming God to be supreme in all things, the classical theist describes him in a number of ways. He is perfect, loving, good, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, timeless, transcendent, personal, immutable and immanent. But how can this be? Is it really possible to be both eternal and timeless? Immutable and immanent? Personal and at the same time transcendent?

ALEXANDER WAUGH

God


God's universe is not like the American legal system. You do something, you pay for it.

THE DEVIL

Brimstone


A bad God is worse than no God at all.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish

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If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

DAN SIMMONS

The Rise of Endymion