Quotes about god
god names nameless
God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless. Mahatma Gandhi
god men might
God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker. Mahatma Gandhi
god way doe
God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable. Mahatma Gandhi
god real self
God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having. Mahatma Gandhi
god men thieves
God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves. Mahatma Gandhi
god intellect
God cannot be realized through intellect. Mahatma Gandhi
god absolute-truth absolutes
God alone knows absolute Truth. Mahatma Gandhi
god illusory transitory
God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory. Mahatma Gandhi
god immortal
God alone is immortal, imperishable. Mahatma Gandhi
god men errors
God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him. Mahatma Gandhi
god heart sacrifice
God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart. Mahatma Gandhi
god thinking people
I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force. James Taylor
god-bless bless damn
God bless... God damn. James Thurber
god color water
God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color. James McBride
god men duty
What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. James Madison
god wise powerful
The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it. James Madison
god angel doors
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. John Donne
god faith christianity
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else. John Donne
god eye men
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. John Donne
god gnats worms
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that. John Donne
god autumn moon
God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity. John Donne
godly people attention
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices. John Ortberg
godly people obeying-god
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God. John Ortberg
god jobs vacation
God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words. John Ortberg
god night men
And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, The less by night... John Milton
god kings rights
Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals; but come from the King of Kings and the Lord of all the earth. John Dickinson
godly mind doubt
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace. John Calvin
godly misery strive
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. John Calvin
god doe glisten
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God. John Calvin
godly men entering
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief. John Calvin
godly christian-love may
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God. John Calvin
god photography memories
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. John Berger
god might study
Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God from a study of his works?" Haldane replied: "An inordinate fondness for beetles." John B. S. Haldane