GOD QUOTES XXIII

quotations about God

God is in the tiger as well as in the lamb.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit Redux


God is able to do more than man can understand.

THOMAS À KEMPIS

Imitation of Christ

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What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Suttree

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While the root of all the absurdities that torment the world, belief in God, remains intact, it will never fail to bring forth new offspring.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

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Try to comprehend the unity of all; there is one God, and all are one in Him. If we can but bring home to ourselves the unity of that Eternal Love, there will be no more sorrow for us; for we shall realize, not for ourselves alone but for those whom we love, that whether we live or die, we are the Lord's, and that in Him we live and move and have our being, whether it be in this world or in the world to come.

C. W. LEADBEATER

The Science of the Sacraments


The Divinity is so great, and of such a character, that He both sees and hears all things, is omnipotent, and attends to all things at once.

XENOPHON

attributed, Day's Collacon


The confidence and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol. If your faith and trust be right, then is your god also true; and, on the other hand, if your trust be false and wrong, then you have not the true God; for these two belong together faith and God. That now, I say, upon which you set your heart and put your trust is properly your god.

MARTIN LUTHER

Large Catechism


Whatever is in motion must be put in motion by another. If that by which it is put in motion be itself put in motion, then this also must needs be put in motion by another, and that by another again. But this cannot go on to infinity, because then there would be no first mover, and, consequently, no other mover; seeing that subsequent movers move only inasmuch as they are put in motion by the first mover; as the staff moves only because it is put in motion by the hand. Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.

THOMAS AQUINAS

Summa Theologica


The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.

GLEN COOK

Dreams of Steel


Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other Gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

"Does God exist?", Salon, October 2, 2011


The universe shows us the life of God, or rather it is in itself the life of God. We behold in it his permanent action, the scene upon which his power is exercised, and in which all his attributes are reflected. God is not out of the universe any more than the universe is out of God. God is the principle, the universe is the consequence, but a necessary consequence, without which the principle would be inert, unfruitful, impossible to conceive.

HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE

God: Conferences Delivered at Notre Dame in Paris

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The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.

JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND

Gold-Foil

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What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

SRI AUROBINDO

Thoughts and Glimpses

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No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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Nothing is trivial to God which is of consequence to us. He is not so absorbed with the affairs of state that he can give no time or thought to the minor concerns of his children's life.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths

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My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning, and may be many; but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one. The more you love and trust Him, the nearer you will feel to Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Women


I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., Sep. 28, 1949


Gods always behave like the people who make them.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Tell My Horse


Those who marry God can become domesticated too--it’s just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word “Love” means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and “Ave Maria” like “dearest” is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world’s marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves--it was God’s taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

GRAHAM GREENE

A Burnt-Out Case