Quotes about god
god-love sole barbarism
The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God. Friedrich Nietzsche
god should
One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.
god father evil
Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
god dies
When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.
god philosophy father
When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.
god hero play
Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?
god one-day world
There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.
god believe stills
A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.
god truth lying
That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so veryfew, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light. George Berkeley
god perfection spirit
God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.
god stars fall
Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.
god lying teaching
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ. George Bernard Shaw
god jesus power
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
god knows
When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
god mistake cancer
We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
god atheist humor
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
god winning sides
They always win who side with God. Frederick William Faber
god sacred fit
God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. Frederick William Robertson
god justice and-love
God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.
god imagination heaven
God's highest gifts--talent, beauty, feeling, imagination, power--they carry with them the possibility of the highest heaven and the lowest hell. Be sure that it is by that which is highest in you that you may be lost.
god law faithful
The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver. Franz Kafka
god believe belief
What is gayer than believing in a household god?
god time men
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. Erich Fromm
god men thinking
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
god can-do
God can only do for you what He can do through you.
god jesus believe
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
god religious hands
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. George Eliot
god heaven presence-of-god
Heaven is the presence of God. Christina Rossetti
god grateful heart
Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.
godly blessing giving
Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon us. George W. Bush
god political kind
I don't bring God into my life to - to, you know, kind of be a political person.
godly giving design
Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.
god faith hope
If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope. George Steiner