Best 15127 quotes in «god quotes» category

For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.

For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended Native Americans ... by God, PETA ought to advocate for the protection of every organism in the animal kingdom.

For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by means of comparison. That which is absolutely incomparable is wholly incomprehensible. God is the only example that we could give here. He cannot be comprehended, because he cannot be compared. But all which is susceptible of comparison, everything that we can perceive by different aspects, all that we can consider relatively, can always be judged according to our knowledge.

For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.

For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author of the laws of nature. If the laws of nature are God's commands for an essentially passive world ..., God also has the power to suspend the laws of nature, and so perform miracles.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger.

Found a smoldering cigarette left by a horse.

Freemasonry is a science of symbols, in which, by their proper study, a search is instituted after truth, that truth consisting in the knowledge of the divine and human nature of God and the human Soul.

From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Gentlemen, as we study the universe we see everywhere the most tremendous manifestations of force. In our own experience we know of but one source of force, namely will. How then can we help regarding the forces we see in nature as due to the will of some omnipresent, omnipotent being? Gentlemen, there must be a GOD.

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.

Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which would not be God himself?), supplied God with patterns for the creation of the world, and passed over to Man along with the image of God; and was not in fact taken in through the eyes.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Give your face to God, and He will put his shine on it.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in, and the more we live and know of our own souls and of spiritual experience generally, the more we shall be convinced that we have to do with one who is good and just.

God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God.

Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you.

God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart.

God alone is immortal, imperishable.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.

God always strives together with those who strive.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

God appeared to His people in the Old Testament and dwelt with His people in the New - and now abides in us by His Spirit.

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he knew from all eternity those individuals who would, through his preventing [going before] grace, believe, and, through his subsequent grace would persevere by which foreknowledge, he likewise knew those who would not believe and persevere.

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

God does not ask your ability Or your inability. He asks only your availability.

God didn't give you the strength to get back on your feet so that you can run back to the same things that knocked you down.