GOD QUOTES VI

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If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.

ARISTOTLE

Metaphysics


As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth.

ANNIE BESANT

The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

EMILE ZOLA

Truth


No man will find God unless he seeks after God for God's own sake, loves him for himself, and not for the gifts which he may bestow.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Seeking After God

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All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

HERMAN MELVILLE

Moby Dick


The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

lecture, Nov. 18, 1862


God's universe is not like the American legal system. You do something, you pay for it.

THE DEVIL

Brimstone


Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

TOBSHA LEARNER

The Witch of Cologne

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I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

ANNE CARSON

The Paris Review, fall 2004


God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Discourse on Metaphysics


For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin, and the bones in the flesh, and the heart in the bulk, so are we soul and body clad and enclosed in the goodness of God: yea, and more homelie, for all they vanish and waste away, the goodness of God is ever whole and more near to us without any comparison.

JULIAN OF NORWICH

Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love

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God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Go Down


If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

DAN SIMMONS

The Rise of Endymion


God's whole nature moves toward the man who wants to be free from sin, as broadly and irresistibly as the summer moves from the south toward the north.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

JOHN LOCKE

"An Examination of P. Malebranche's Opinion of Seeing All Things in God", Philosophical Works


My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

SRI AUROBINDO

Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol


I've never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith -- it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Stranger in a Strange Land

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When men make gods, there is no God!

EUGENE O'NEILL

Lazarus Laughed

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God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you -- even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.

NEIL GAIMAN

American Gods


Our life is like th' unstable wave,
Our bloom of youth decays.
Our joys are brief as lightning flash
In summer's cloudy days,
Our riches fleet as swift as thought;
Faith in the One Supreme
Alone will bear us o'er the gulfs
Of Being's stormy stream.

BHARTRHARI

"Of Time the Destroyer"

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