God Quotes

                                                                            GOD  QUOTES

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” 

“God has no religion.” 

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” 

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.” 

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” 

“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” 

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC” 

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” 

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!” 

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” 

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”

“I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.” 

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.” 

“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.” 

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.” 

“Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.” “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”                                                                                                                                                       God Quotes                                        

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

An honest God's the noblest work of man.

When men make gods, there is no God!

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

After 9/11, there were a lot of things being said about how the God of Islam and the God of the Christian faith were one and the same, but that's simply not true ... The God that I worship does not require me to kill other people. The God that I worship tells me I am to love my enemy, to give him food when he's hungry and water when he's thirsty.

Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us

O'er the world's tempestuous sea;

Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us,

For we have no help but Thee.

God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

God is a foreman with certain definite views

Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.

The flame of my life burns low

Under the cluttered days,

Like a fire of leaves.

But always a little blue, sweet-smelling smoke

Goes up to God.

God helps them that helps themselves.

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Where sanity is

there God is.

God is the perfect poet,

Who in his person acts his own creations.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,

But God to man doth speak in solitude.

God doesn't do anything to us. He doesn't have to. We're too busy doing it to each other.

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.

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.

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.

I think everyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.

So long as you believe in a Two-Faced God, you will create ecstasy and terror side by side. You have imagined a God who is the epitome of both, and by telling yourself that you are created in the Image and Likeness of God, you have given yourself the moral authority to demonstrate both. You love and hate in the name of God.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own--a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.

God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Nothing more shows the low condition Man is fallen into, than the unsuitable notion we must have of God, by the ways we take to please him.

God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars--

If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them

Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears.

I don't believe in God, but I miss him.

J

Those who are crafty, think the wisdom of God warrants him to deceive; those who are revengeful, think the goodness of God permits him to be cruel; those who are arbitrary, think the sovereignty of God is the account of his actions. Everyone attributes to God, what he finds in himself: but that cannot be a perfection in God, which is a dishonesty in Man.

God never made his work for man to mend

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.

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred -- like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials — but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

If there is a God what the hell is He for?

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

What were a God who only gave the world a push from without, or let it spin around His finger? I look for a God who moves the world from within, who fosters nature in Himself, Himself in nature; so that naught of all that lives and moves and has its being in Him ever forgets His force or His spirit.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. In that way you can see, hear and play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.

The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.

God is the only being who need not even exist in order to reign.

There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

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!

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the walls of his cell.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

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