GOD QUOTES VIII

quotations about God

God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you -- even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.

NEIL GAIMAN

American Gods


To know the face of God is to know madness.

LEOBEN CONOY

"Flesh and Bone", Battlestar Galactica


God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

JOHN LOCKE

"An Examination of P. Malebranche's Opinion of Seeing All Things in God", Philosophical Works


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 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


I have too much respect for the idea of God to hold Him responsible for such an absurd world.

GEORGES DUHAMEL

The Pasquier Chronicles


Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

EDWARD ABBEY

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)

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The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

BLAISE PASCAL

Thoughts

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Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Enoch Arden


I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

History of Woman Suffrage


It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Stranger in a Strange Land


The nearer the Church the further from God.

LANCELOT ANDREWES

Sermon on the Nativity before James I

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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


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


The most radical thing about a conversion to God is the determination to love, to really love in His name.

ANNE RICE

The Wolves of Midwinter

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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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Ignorance of nature's ways led people in ancient times to invent gods to lord it over every aspect of human life. There were gods of love and war; of the sun, earth, and sky; of the oceans and rivers; of rain and thunderstorms; even of earthquakes and volcanoes. When the gods were pleased, mankind was treated to good weather, peace, and freedom from natural disaster and disease. When they were displeased, there came draught, war, pestilence, and epidemics. Since the connection of cause and effect in nature was invisible to their eyes, these gods appeared inscrutable, and people at their mercy.

STEPHEN HAWKING & LEONARD MLODINOW

The Grand Design


I don't believe in God, but I miss him.

JULIAN BARNES

Conversations with Julian Barnes

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When men make gods, there is no God!

EUGENE O'NEILL

Lazarus Laughed

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