Best 15127 quotes in «god quotes» category

To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.

To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.

To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he against it, but the School-divinity which I have already answered? Scripture he can bring none, because the word incorporeal is not found in Scripture.

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

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!

To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.

Trails need to be wider so people can walk while holding hands.

Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.

True art means if it helps you to become silent, still, joyous; if it gives you a celebration, if it makes you dance—whether anybody participates with you or not is irrelevant. If it becomes a bridge between you and God, that is true art. If it becomes a meditation, that is true art. If you become absorbed in it, so utterly absorbed that the ego disappears, that is true art.

True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.

Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.

Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.

Trusting Him to work out your circumstances instead of using your own might and power will bring deep satisfying joy into your life.

Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.

Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.

Trust God where you cannot see Him. Do not try to penetrate the cloud He brings over you; rather look to the bow that is on it. The mystery is God's; the promise is yours.

Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.

Truth is the right designation of God.

Try to live as if there were a God

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.

Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations. Yet, building that society can never be divided from the daily practices through which we live out our ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat others around us, and in the way we nourish the God within us.

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

View life as a learning opportunity. Ask God what He wants you to learn from the situations you face. . . . When we set aside specific time to listen, He often encourages us with His presence and promises, and interprets to some degree the circumstances of life. Take advantage of the natural lull after hard times when you're pulling together the pieces to sort through the events and ferret out the lessons.

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.

Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.

Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.

We aim to please... You aim too, please.

We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.