Best 15127 quotes in «god quotes» category

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

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

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.

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

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

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.

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

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 true; God alone is great; alone is God.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

God cannot be found outside you, because there is no God who can ever be outside you. God is the ultimate fragrance of your consciousness. When your consciousness opens like a lotus, the fragrance that is released is God - better to call it godliness.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

God alone knows absolute Truth.

God and all attributes of God are eternal.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

God cannot be less than Himself. And God is good. And active. And faithful. And He cares.

God cares about you and your needs. Bring them to Him in a spirit of worship and thanksgiving, knowing that He is mindful of your place in His creation.

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

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.

God doesn't owe us anything yet in His grace, He still gives us good things.

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.