Quotes about god
god religious motivation
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine
god philosophical trying
Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us all about the nature of God would be the worst, if they were not surpassed by the still greater absurdities of the philosophers who try to prove that there is no God. Thomas Huxley
god christian giving-up
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.
god
For God is like a skilfull Geometrician. Thomas Browne
god art nature
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
god disease
Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves. Thomas Sydenham
god each-day way
The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day. Thomas S. Monson
god children littles
Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult. Thomas Reid
god delay rewards
God's delays are not God's denials. Robert H. Schuller
god leaves-of-grass curious
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. Walt Whitman
goddess housewife
I call myself a 'domestic goddess. Roseanne Barr
god one-day knows
I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.
gods-plan ends plans
There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan. Rod Parsley
godly names function
Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function? Robert Sheckley
god-knows intrigued
I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places. Robert Plant
god spiritual art
There is at the moment in the world a battle going on between those who are pursuing materialistic paths-globalizers of economic growth and those hell-bent on this 'big is better' idea-on the one hand, and on the other hand those who are dedicated to spiritual renewal, more small-scale development, more human scale, more sustainability, more crafts and arts. Where human beings are not just sold to companies and money and those kinds of things. Where human beings have a sacred path. Satish Kumar
god men wind
But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Sargent Shriver
god soul weight
There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent. Samuel Rutherford
god atheist philosophy
...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. Robert Anton Wilson
god-love worst god-loves-us
God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all. Rich Mullins
god faith jesus
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. Rob Bell
god christian atheist
An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. Richard Dawkins
god religious atheist
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
god stars night
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. Robinson Jeffers
godzilla mets peasants
I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!' Robin Williams
god real ignorance
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature. Robert Green Ingersoll
god thinking want
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
god jesus believe
They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
god men honest
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
god destiny farce
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.
god religious hypocrite
A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.
god religious men
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.
god host forget
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget! Rudyard Kipling