GOD QUOTES XVII

quotations about God

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

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If God were not a necessary being of himself, he might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

JOHN TILLOTSON

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Every attentive and intelligent student of the Bible will perceive, that revelation was vouchsafed to man, in order to deliver or preserve him from idolatry, by instructing him in the character and perfections of the one living and true God, and the way in which he would be worshipped; as well as to teach other duties, and to influence him to perform them. The jealous care of Jehovah, to distinguish betwixt himself and every idol, to secure the glory himself without allowing any of it to be given to another, and the terrible denunciations pronounced against, and severe judgments executed upon idolaters, must attract the notice of all who are conversant with the sacred oracles, and convince every impartial person that idolatry is the greatest of all sins, atheism alone excepted.

THOMAS SCOTT

"On the Scripture Character of God", Essays on the Most Important Subjects in Religion


The divine qualities of man are but the slightest hints, the faintest intimations, of the attributes of God.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


God writes a lot of comedy ... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

GARRISON KEILLOR

Happy to be Here


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


As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime


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

REBECCA WEST

The Paris Review, spring 1981


The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

WILLIAM JAMES

Lecture XX, "Conclusions," The Varieties of Religious Experience


The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

WOODY ALLEN

Love and Death


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


The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

ARISTOPHANES

The Clouds


All human love is a faint type of God's;
An echoing note from a harmonious whole;
A feeble spark from an undying flame;
A single drop from an unfathomed sea:
But God's is infinite; it fills the earth
And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.

ALBERT LAIGHTON

"The Love of God"

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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself in, and the more we live and know of our own souls and of spiritual experiences generally, the more we shall be convinced that we have to do with one who is good and just.

HUGH R. HAWEIS

Speech in Season

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Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

SRI AUROBINDO

Thoughts and Glimpses


Let a man reverence himself. Then he is not far from believing in God.

FRANK CRANE

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

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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


Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried to project the Creator in any kind of human likeness. The vociferous debates about whether God is male or female seem ridiculous to me. I think of God as an omnipotent and omniscient presence, a spirit that permeates the universe, the essence of truth, nature, being, and life. To me, these are profound and indescribable concepts that seem to be trivialized when expressed in words.

JIMMY CARTER

Living Faith


God is a foreman with certain definite views
Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.

SEAMUS HEANEY

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God's merits are so transcendent that it is not surprising his faults should be in reasonable proportion.

SAMUEL BUTLER

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