Quotes
Quotes about God
Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.
The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.
God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,.
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.
Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacleâpushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'.
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
God's first creature, which was light.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.
God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
If someone were to prove to meâright this minuteâthat God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
