Famous Quotes & Sayings

John the Apostle

God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

John the Apostle

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

John Tillotson

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

John Templeton

The air we breathe is necessary to keep us alive, but we must continually breathe it out so we can breathe fresh air back into our lungs. God gives us his love, which we can keep in action by breathing it out to others, thus making room in our hearts for a fresh supply of love.

John Stuart Blackie

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

John Stott

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.

John Steinbeck

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world — of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand. Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have.

John Piper

To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.

Martin Luther

God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.

Martin Luther

Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.

Martin Luther

An angel is a spiritual being, created by god without a body, for the service of Christendom.

Martin Luther

If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.

Martin Luther

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Martin Luther

The devil is God's ape!

Martin Luther

You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.

Simon Wiesenthal

You're a religious man, ... You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?' there will be many answers. You will say, 'I became a jeweler.' Another will say, 'I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' Another will say, 'I built houses.' But I will say, 'I didn't forget you.'

Rajneesh

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

Rajneesh

Hidden behind man is God. Just give him a little way, a little passage, to come through you. That is creativity. Allowing God to happen is creativity. Creativity is a religious state.

Rajneesh

Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God.

Rajneesh

There is no God other than life itself.

Rajneesh

Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

Rajneesh

You can call it godliness - it IS godliness. It is the highest, the greatest flowering of being. But it is not a God somewhere outside you. You cannot pray to it. You can be it, but you cannot pray to it, because it is not separate.

Rajneesh

God cannot be found outside you, because there is no God who can ever be outside you. God is the ultimate fragrance of your consciousness. When your consciousness opens like a lotus, the fragrance that is released is God - better to call it godliness.

Rajneesh

By `God` I mean godliness; the whole existence is full of godliness. And when you will come to know, you will not see a god standing before you, you will see the trees as divine, the rocks as divine, the people as divine, the animals as divine. God is spread all over the place, from the pebble to the star, from the blade of grass to the sun - it is all divine.

Rajneesh

God is not a person at all. You cannot worship God. You can live in a godly way but you cannot worship God - there is nobody to worship. All your worship is sheer stupidity, all your images of God are your own creation. There is no God as such, but there is godliness, certainly - in the flowers, in the birds, in the stars, in the eyes of the people, when a song arises in the heart and poetry surrounds you... all this is God. Let us say `godliness` rather than using the word `God` - that word gives you the idea of a person, and God is not a person but a presence.

Rajneesh

Jesus says God is love. I would like to change it. I would like to say love is God. When you say God is love, love is only one of the qualities of God; he may have other qualities: wisdom, justice, etcetera. To me, love is God; godliness is only one of the qualities of love. There is no other God than the fragrance of love. But the fragrance can arise only in deep meditation.

Rajneesh

What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God.

Rajneesh

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.

Rajneesh

You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

Rajneesh

Look deep into your throbbing life and you will find the quality of the divine. You will not find a God but you will find a godliness, a truth, an awakening, a buddha.

Rajneesh

There is no God, but there is certainly a quality I call godliness. It comprises compassion, love, friendship, joy, creativity. It brings you new songs, it brings you new dances. It brings you the truth, and the immersion of you into the truth.

Rajneesh

God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.

Rajneesh

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.