GOD QUOTES XIII

quotations about God

Remember the perfections of that God whom you worship, that he is a Spirit, and therefore to be worshipped in spirit and truth; and that he is most great and terrible, and therefore to be worshipped with seriousness and reverence, and not to be dallied with, or served with toys or lifeless lip-service; and that he is most holy, pure, and jealous, and therefore to be purely worshipped; and that he is still present with you, and all things are naked and open to him with whom we have to do. The knowledge of God, and the remembrance of his all-seeing presence, are the most powerful means against hypocrisy.

RICHARD BAXTER

Christian Ethics

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God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

DAN SIMMONS

Lovedeath

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God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.

JOHN ORTBERG

God Is Closer Than You Think

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God gives as the wheat gives: we sow one grain, and reap a hundred.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Man


There are many men, and a large number, who, though they do not wish to be rid of God, do not very much care to have him.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Seeking After God


He that lives in love lives in God.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


No man or woman can truly choose to serve God unless they are equally free to refuse to serve Him, and God desires for His people to come to Him clear-eyed and joyously, not cringing in terror of the Inquisition and the damnation of Hell.

DAVID WEBER

By Schism Rent Asunder


'Twas only fear first in the world made gods.

BEN JONSON

Sejanus


The ethical is the universal, and as such it is again the divine. One has therefore a right to say that fundamentally every duty is a duty toward God; but if one cannot say more, then one affirms at the same time that properly I have no duty toward God. Duty becomes duty by being referred to God, but in duty itself I do not come into relation with God. Thus it is a duty to love one's neighbor, but in performing this duty I do not come into relation with God but with the neighbor whom I love. If I say then in this connection that it is my duty to love God, I am really uttering only a tautology, inasmuch as "God" is in this instance used in an entirely abstract sense as the divine, i.e. the universal, i.e. duty. So the whole existence of the human race is rounded off completely like a sphere, and the ethical is at once its limit and its content. God becomes an invisible vanishing point, a powerless thought, His power being only in the ethical which is the content of existence.

SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Fear and Trembling


The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths, and as the hierarchy of the universe is disclosed to us, we may have to recognize this chilling truth: if there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very important gods.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

"Space and the Spirit of Man"


An honest God's the noblest work of man.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Further Extracts from the Note Books


I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.

MARY MCCARTHY

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood


Gods must be seen to be omnipotent, or the sky will fall.

K. J. PARKER

Devices and Desires


Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long


I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

The Book of Hours


They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

EMILY DICKINSON

letter to Mrs. J. G. Holland, spring 1878

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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 is not the author of all things, but of good only.

PLATO

The Republic


There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself.

HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE

God and Man: Conferences Delivered at Notre Dame in Paris by the Rev. Père Lacordaire