GOD QUOTES XVII

quotations about God

The Divine Being brings comfort and consolation to men. He is a God for men that are weak, and want to be strong; for men that are impure, and want to be pure; for men that are unjust, and want to be just; for men that are unloving, and want to be loving; for men that aspire to all the greatness and glory of which the soul is capable.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Whether men will or not, they must be subject always to the Divine Power. By denying the existence or providence of God, men may shake off their ease, but not their yoke.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan


Let a man reverence himself. Then he is not far from believing in God.

FRANK CRANE

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

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The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Blood Meridian

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Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

attributed, The Best Liberal Quotes Ever

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The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

WILLIAM JAMES

Lecture XX, "Conclusions," The Varieties of Religious Experience


The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless.

MAXWELL ANDERSON

Elizabeth the Queen


God, to conceive him, intellect design'd;
At last, her Maker see, 'neath nature's vest!
A voice in silence whispers to the mind--
Who hath not heard that voice within his breast?

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"The Valley", Poetical Meditations


I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

telegram response to New York rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, Apr. 24, 1929


I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One is so lonely. Maybe that is why he created human beings--to feel less lonely. But as human beings betray his creation, he may become even lonelier.

ELIE WIESEL

Random House interview


God's voice was not in the earthquake,
Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Children of the Lord's Supper"


God is dead: but considering the state of the species Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Die frohliche Wissenschaft

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The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Literature and Dogma

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Men may tire themselves in a labyrinth of search, and talk of God: But if we would know him indeed, it must be from the impressions we receive of him; and the softer our hearts are, the deeper and livelier those will be upon us.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


God can be good and terrible--not in succession--but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him; we approach him through the mediating priest and attenuate and enclose him through the sacraments. It is for our own safety: to trap him within confines which render him safe.

PHILIP K. DICK

Valis


I have often a suspicion God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.

REBECCA WEST

The Paris Review, spring 1981


Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

SIMON MAWER

The Gospel of Judas


Our notions of God are tinged by our own characters and ignorance.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not a rule of authority. God is not a governor of the universe, for a governor rules over those of a like nature with himself, and exercises a political and judicial power, while God exercises a creative, a preserving, and a determinative power of an altogether different kind. If I am a servant of God, I am under no tyranny; for God does not govern, but supports, sustains, and directs me.

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

Remarks on the Science of History


God is infinite and we are finite; and, at the best, we can only know him a very little.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Seeking After God

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