Best 15127 quotes in «god quotes» category

If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.

If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House.

If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.

If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

If God made me a princess, why didn't he take a little more time and make my hair so it wouldn't snarl?

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

If God is everywhere, I had concluded, then He is in food. Therefore, the more I ate the godlier I would become. Impelled by this new religious fervor, I glutted myself like a fanatic.

If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

If God is the author of life, there must be a script.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.

If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

If God is all powerful, can He make a stone so big that He Himself can't lift it?

If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.

If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.

If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.

I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

If men act upon the teaching of the Word of God, and as proportionately men live according to the teaching and commands of the Bible, so they have in practice a sufficient psychological base. I will find you a man dealing with psychological problems on the basis of the teaching of the Word of God, even if he never heard the word psychology, or does not know what it means.

If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.

If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of the lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the 'comfort' of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment.

i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.

If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.

If our country's choice is to be a Great Power, Russia will be the great power not because of the nuclear potential, not because of faith in God or president, or western investments but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in Knowledge and Science and thanks to the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.