GOD QUOTES XIX

quotations about God


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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the athiest who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

MARCEL PROUST
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The Guermantes Way


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Only one thing is necessary: to possess God -- All the senses, all the forces of the soul and of the spirit, all the exterior resources are so many open outlets to the Divinity; so many ways of tasting and of adoring God.

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime

Tags: Henri-Frederic Amiel


Who knoweth God the sum of science owns.
The heavens record His handiwork; the earth
Worships His footsteps; life His breath repeats;
The soul His image; everlasting space,
The harmonies of His nature echoing, round
Reflects His vast extension; the great whole,
His boundless being, and His infinite mind.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Universal Hymn


I have often a suspicion God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.

REBECCA WEST

The Paris Review, spring 1981


How things stand, is God.
God is, how things stand.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Notebooks, Aug. 1, 1916


God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

EMIL CIORAN

The Trouble with Being Born


I ask no truer image of my Heavenly Father than I find reflected in my own heart -- all loving, all forgiving.

HOSEA BALLOU

Treasury of Thought


I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

telegram response to New York rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, Apr. 24, 1929


God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

SAMUEL BECKETT

Watt

Tags: Samuel Beckett


God is dead: but considering the state of the species Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Die frohliche Wissenschaft

Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


The universe is just as great and amazing inside of me as outside. Immanuel Kant marveled when he looked into his own heart, as when he looked up at the sky. So the stars over me are no less sublime than my soul which mirrors them; thunder and lightning among the clouds are matched by storms of passion within me as terrible as they; my memory is a greater thing than the British Museum, for it is a living museum; my will is greater than gravitation or electricity or gunpowder, for it can use them, and they cannot budge; my imagination is more wondrous than the Vatican gallery, for its pictures come and go with instant swiftness, and my conscience is as mysterious and as majestic as the substance of God Himself.

FRANK CRANE

"The Part of Me That Doubts", Four Minute Essays

Tags: Frank Crane


The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

RICHARD DAWKINS

The God Delusion

Tags: Richard Dawkins


God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love. It set fire to a bush in the desert, didn't it, and smashed open graves and set the dead walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would run a mile to get away if he felt that love around.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Power and the Glory


God may be distinguished, but not divided from the World. World without God were an effect without a cause; but God without World were a cause without an effect.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes


No god save self, that is the way to live ...

CONRAD AIKEN

"Youth"


Many people choose to believe that God communicates in special ways and only with special people. This removes the mass of the people from responsibility for hearing My message, much less receiving it (which is another matter), and allows them to take someone else's word for everything. You don't have to listen to Me, for you've already decided that others have heard from Me on every subject, and you have them to listen to.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Conversations with God

Tags: Neal Donald Walsch


Isn't it time now for us to declare that the emperor is wearing no clothes? When are we going to admit that we believe in a God of extraordinary contradictions, who we say loves and who we say kills, who we say creates and who we say destroys, who we say accepts and who we say rejects, who we say rewards and who we say punishes, who we say brings us good and who we say visits evil upon us, who we say is the All in All and who we say is separate from everything, who we say is Everywhere Present and who we say is not in us and that we are not?

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Tomorrow's God


To recognize God where and as he reveals himself is the only true bliss on earth.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Men may tire themselves in a labyrinth of search, and talk of God: But if we would know him indeed, it must be from the impressions we receive of him; and the softer our hearts are, the deeper and livelier those will be upon us.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.

T. S. ELIOT

The Rock