GOD QUOTES VIII

quotations about God

The existence of the world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all his perfection, creating an imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

ARMAND SALACROU

attributed, Certitudes et Incertitudes


God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Discourse on Metaphysics


If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.

ARISTOTLE

Metaphysics


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


We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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No man will find God unless he seeks after God for God's own sake, loves him for himself, and not for the gifts which he may bestow.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Seeking After God

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The difference between the truth of God and revelation is very simple. Truth is where God's been. Revelation is where God is. Truth is God's tracks. It's His trail, His path, but it leads to what? It leads to Him. Perhaps the masses of people are happy to know where God's been, but true God chasers are not content just to study God's trail, His truths; they want to know Him. They want to know where He is and what He's doing right now.

TOMMY TENNEY

The God Chasers

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The God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

The Life of Reason


When we say that God is infinite, we do not mean that He is of immeasurable size and duration, but that He is beyond all space and time. He is neither in space nor in time; for this reason He is eternal and infinite, and therefore He is also incomprehensible.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth.

ANNIE BESANT

The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

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God is a thought which makes crooked all that is straight.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spake Zarathustra


O thou mighty mind! whose powerful word
Said, thus let all things be, and thus they were!

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD

"A Summer Evening's Meditation"

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Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Enoch Arden


I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

STEPHEN HAWKING

New Scientist, Apr. 26, 2007


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


I have, I think, somewhat of an odd version of God. I do not have an intervening Go I appreciate other people's prayers for that [a cure for her cancer], but I believe that we are given a set of guidelines, and that we are obligated to live our lives with a view to those guidelines. And I don't believe that we should live our lives that way for some promise of eternal life, but because that's what's right. We should do those things because that's what's right.

ELIZABETH EDWARDS

attributed, Politics Daily, Dec. 8, 2010


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

DAN SIMMONS

The Rise of Endymion


It should not be so hard to believe in God, for man himself is scarcely less wonderful.

FRANK CRANE

"The Part of Me That Doubts", Four Minute Essays

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God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Go Down


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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