GOD QUOTES XX

quotations about God

God is able to do more than man can understand.

THOMAS À KEMPIS

Imitation of Christ

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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

JAMES BALDWIN

The Fire Next Time

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Let every man come to God in his own way.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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Nothing more shows the low condition Man is fallen into, than the unsuitable notion we must have of God, by the ways we take to please him.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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I ask no truer image of my Heavenly Father than I find reflected in my own heart -- all loving, all forgiving.

HOSEA BALLOU

Treasury of Thought


I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is."

ALAN ARKIN

Esquire, Mar. 2007


It's easy being a god. If you have the right equipment.

DAN SIMMONS

Ilium


The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities to be impressed with it.

JAMES MADISON

letter to Frederick Beasley, Nov. 20, 1825


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

SIMON MAWER

The Gospel of Judas


I wouldn't wanna do anything to hurt God. He's got enough trouble with the Russians and all.

THEODORE "BEAVER" CLEAVER

Leave it to Beaver


God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.

H. L. MENCKEN

Minority Report

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Within you lies embedded in the marble of your human life the Spirit that is God, hidden beneath the flesh, hidden beneath the bodies, the emotions and the mind, so that it is not visible to the outer eyes. You have not to create that image. It is there. You have not to manufacture it; you have only to set it free.

ANNIE BESANT

There Is No Death

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The Divinity is so great, and of such a character, that He both sees and hears all things, is omnipotent, and attends to all things at once.

XENOPHON

attributed, Day's Collacon


I think, Some shrewd man first, a man in judgment wise,
Found for mortals the fear of gods,
Thereby to frighten the wicked should they
Even act or speak or scheme in secret.

EURIPIDES

Sisyphus (fragment)


Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear in them but only that wildness of heart that springs from such longing and they cry out to stay his presence for they know at once that while godless men may live well enough in their exile those to whom He has spoken can contemplate no life without Him but only darkness and despair. Trees and stones are no part of it.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

The Crossing


For the existence of any religion there must be a belief that there is, somewhere in the universe, an intelligence of a higher order than man's, and that this intelligence possesses a power superior to what we call the ordinary powers of nature. And religion is simply the condition or adjustment of the relations between each individual human soul and that higher intelligence, call it by what name you will.

ROSSITER JOHNSON

"The Whispering Gallery"


The universe is just as great and amazing inside of me as outside. Immanuel Kant marveled when he looked into his own heart, as when he looked up at the sky. So the stars over me are no less sublime than my soul which mirrors them; thunder and lightning among the clouds are matched by storms of passion within me as terrible as they; my memory is a greater thing than the British Museum, for it is a living museum; my will is greater than gravitation or electricity or gunpowder, for it can use them, and they cannot budge; my imagination is more wondrous than the Vatican gallery, for its pictures come and go with instant swiftness, and my conscience is as mysterious and as majestic as the substance of God Himself.

FRANK CRANE

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

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God, wishing His elect to realize their own misery, often temporarily withdraws His favours: no more is needed to prove to us in a very short time what we really are.

TERESA OF AVILA

The Interior Castle

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Do for God what you do for your ambitious projects, what you do in consecrating yourself to Art, what you have done when you loved a human creature or sought some secret of human science. Is not God the whole of science, the all of love, the source of poetry? Surely His riches are worthy of being coveted! His treasure is inexhaustible, His poem infinite, His love immutable, His science sure and darkened by no mysteries.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Seraphita

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Try to comprehend the unity of all; there is one God, and all are one in Him. If we can but bring home to ourselves the unity of that Eternal Love, there will be no more sorrow for us; for we shall realize, not for ourselves alone but for those whom we love, that whether we live or die, we are the Lord's, and that in Him we live and move and have our being, whether it be in this world or in the world to come.

C. W. LEADBEATER

The Science of the Sacraments