Quotes about god
god mathematical-logic numbers
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist. Saint Augustine
god lovely lovely-things
In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.
god blessed soul
When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.
god-love
Love God, and do what you like.
god evil good-god
If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
god knows
We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.
god faith believe
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
god effort mind
But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought. Xenophanes
god giving tangled
The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities. Rudyard Kipling
god
I see no god up here. Yuri Gagarin
god humble eye
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. William E. Gladstone
god sides majority
One on God's side is a majority. Wendell Phillips
god men understanding
There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being. Walter Raleigh
god causes good-god
God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
god jobs believe
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights. W. Somerset Maugham
god infinite understood
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
god church fool
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
god responsibility men
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders -now that we are become men like gods. It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair. Wyndham Lewis
god trying santa
I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus. William P. Young
god kings world
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. William Penn
god love-life
He that lives in love lives in God.
god men tyrants
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
god faith hope
When a child has no hope, a nation has no future. Zell Miller