Best 15127 quotes in «god quotes» category

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

If all are created in the divine image, then our images of God must be fluid and multifarious.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased.

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own.

I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation.

I feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to the deep human yearning for connection and for peace on earth, and that they both have a vision of universal human equity.

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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 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 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 knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.