GOD QUOTES VIII

quotations about God

Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission". The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done.

TIMOTHY LEARY

The Intelligence Agents

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The nearer the Church the further from God.

LANCELOT ANDREWES

Sermon on the Nativity before James I

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The Stoics affirm that God is a thing more common and obvious, and is a mechanic fire which every way spreads itself to produce the world; it contains in itself all seminal virtues, and by this means all things by a fatal necessity were produced. This spirit, passing through the whole world, received different names from the mutations in the matter through which it ran in its journey. God therefore is the world, the stars, the earth, and (highest of all) the mind in the heavens. In the judgment of Epicurus all the gods are anthropomorphites, or have the shape of men; but they are perceptible only by reason, for their nature admits of no other manner of being apprehended, their parts being so small and fine that they give no corporeal representations. The same Epicurus asserts that there are four other natural beings which are immortal: of this sort are atoms, the vacuum, the infinite, and the similar parts; and these last are called Homoeomeries and likewise elements.

PLUTARCH

"What is God?", Essays & Miscellanies

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The true God is not a form idealized; he/she/it is real and therefore, by definition, imperfect; only an abstraction can be free of flaws. And since God is imperfect, there will be suffering.... There is no perfect God. And your suffering requires no more explanation than that unavoidable imperfection.

ROBERT J. SAWYER

Calculating God


Who would imagine that the Deity conducts his providence similar to the detestable despots of this world? Oh horrible? most horrible impeachment of Divine Goodness!

ETHAN ALLEN

Reason: The Only Oracle of Man

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Giving yourself up o love is melting into God. It is falling into the hands of the living God with complete abandon. This is the deep, interior prayer for which we have been striving. Here we must let go of our dependency on thoughts, words, and images. We go into the beautiful darkness. We stop struggling. We let the angels carry us. Surrender is the only word we know.

MACRINA WIEDERKEHR

A Tree Full of Angels

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I want to tell you about the God that actually showed up and healed my heart. Not the God I grew up, because the God I grew up was fundamentally, and I use the word advisedly, fundamentally untrustworthy -- schizophrenic, narcissistic, unreachable, unknowable, and my concept within which I grew up was that Jesus -- He likes me -- but He came to save me from God the Father -- who was the one who was angry and distant, and unreachable, unknowable. All of that had to come crashing down.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

interview, "Your Daily Bread", Rare, Dec. 10, Rare, Dec. 10, 2013


Nature only shows us the tail of the lion. I am convinced, however, that the lion is attached to it, even though he cannot reveal himself directly because of his enormous size.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein


So, loath to suffer mute.
We, peopling the void air,
Make Gods to whom to impute
The ills we ought to bear.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Empedocles on Etna


The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate.

TIMOTHY LEARY

Evolutionary Agents


There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

FRANK HERBERT

Dune Messiah


We can no more exist without a surrounding God, than a tree can exist without a surrounding atmosphere.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful


Before we deny or believe the existence of anything, it is necessary that we should have a tolerably clear idea of what it is. The word "God," a vague word, has been, and will continue to be, the source of numberless errors, until it is erased from the nomenclature of philosophy. Does it imply "the soul of the universe, the intelligent and necessarily beneficent, actuating principle?" This it is impossible not to believe in; I may not be able to adduce proofs, but I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are, in themselves, arguments more conclusive than any which can be advanced, that some vast intellect animates infinity.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Jan. 3, 1811


Each man creates god in his own image.

MORDECAI RICHLER

Son of a Smaller Hero


I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.

WILHELM REICH

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Ignorance of nature's ways led people in ancient times to invent gods to lord it over every aspect of human life. There were gods of love and war; of the sun, earth, and sky; of the oceans and rivers; of rain and thunderstorms; even of earthquakes and volcanoes. When the gods were pleased, mankind was treated to good weather, peace, and freedom from natural disaster and disease. When they were displeased, there came draught, war, pestilence, and epidemics. Since the connection of cause and effect in nature was invisible to their eyes, these gods appeared inscrutable, and people at their mercy.

STEPHEN HAWKING & LEONARD MLODINOW

The Grand Design


The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

BLAISE PASCAL

Thoughts

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The most radical thing about a conversion to God is the determination to love, to really love in His name.

ANNE RICE

The Wolves of Midwinter

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A bad God is worse than no God at all.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish

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Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Enoch Arden