Quotes about god
god desire may
My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself. Johannes Kepler
god believe ideas
I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.
god book writing
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study him.
god religious hurt
It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship. John Adams
god religious reading
These figures emphasize how soft people's commitment to God is. Americans are willing to expend some energy in religious activities such as attending church and reading the Bible, and they are willing to throw some money in the offering basket, but when it comes time to truly establishing their priorities and making a tangible commitment to knowing and loving God, most people stop short. George Barna
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.
god war land
[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land. Emmanuel Jal
god
The first thing I said was, 'Oh my God,' James Frey
god hears structures
The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.
god spiritual men
In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But he has never learned very well how to live with himself. The values he has created have been predominantly materialistic; his spiritual values have lagged far behind. He has demonstrated little spiritual genius and has made little progress toward the realization of human brotherhood. In the contemporary atomic age, this could prove man's fatal weakness. Ralph Bunche
god reality grace
Whatever you are doing, if there is contentment and a feeling that this whole existence is nothing but the manifestation of godliness, that we are traveling on holy earth, that whomever you are meeting, you are meeting God - there is no other way; only faces are different, but the inner reality is the same - all your tensions will disappear. And the energy that is involved in tensions will start becoming your grace, your beauty. Rajneesh
god hope thinking
Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are. Rainer Maria Rilke
god dark roots
Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.
god children night
I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure.
god religious believe
People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing. Rafael Yglesias
god-is-great
God is good all the time. And all the time, God is good. Shane Harper
god views order
God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. Seamus Heaney
god stuff bigs
But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me. Michael W. Smith
god spiritual caring
We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will feel it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual and ethical aspirations and will allow themselves to give more space to their highest vision in their personal interactions with others. A politics of meaning is as much about these millions of small acts as it is about any larger change. The two necessarily go hand in hand. Michael Lerner
god choices world
The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will. John Haggai
god people honor
God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit. John Hagee
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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