GOD QUOTES VIII

quotations about God

In affirming God to be supreme in all things, the classical theist describes him in a number of ways. He is perfect, loving, good, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, timeless, transcendent, personal, immutable and immanent. But how can this be? Is it really possible to be both eternal and timeless? Immutable and immanent? Personal and at the same time transcendent?

ALEXANDER WAUGH

God


The existence of the world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all his perfection, creating an imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

ARMAND SALACROU

attributed, Certitudes et Incertitudes


God's universe is not like the American legal system. You do something, you pay for it.

THE DEVIL

Brimstone


To know the face of God is to know madness.

LEOBEN CONOY

"Flesh and Bone", Battlestar Galactica


Before we deny or believe the existence of anything, it is necessary that we should have a tolerably clear idea of what it is. The word "God," a vague word, has been, and will continue to be, the source of numberless errors, until it is erased from the nomenclature of philosophy. Does it imply "the soul of the universe, the intelligent and necessarily beneficent, actuating principle?" This it is impossible not to believe in; I may not be able to adduce proofs, but I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are, in themselves, arguments more conclusive than any which can be advanced, that some vast intellect animates infinity.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Jan. 3, 1811


There's something infinitely sad about little girls who grow up understanding (usually unconsciously) that if God is male, it's because male is the most valuable thing to be. This belief resonates in a thousand hidden ways in their lives. It slowly cripples girl children, and it cripples female adults.

SUE MONK KIDD

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

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God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.

PHILIP YANCEY

Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?


Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Enoch Arden


The true God is not a form idealized; he/she/it is real and therefore, by definition, imperfect; only an abstraction can be free of flaws. And since God is imperfect, there will be suffering.... There is no perfect God. And your suffering requires no more explanation than that unavoidable imperfection.

ROBERT J. SAWYER

Calculating God


What were a God who only gave the world a push from without, or let it spin around His finger? I look for a God who moves the world from within, who fosters nature in Himself, Himself in nature; so that naught of all that lives and moves and has its being in Him ever forgets His force or His spirit.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

"Phoœmion"

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Though cares and sorrows e'er must come,
Though heart be rent,
I know that God will give me strength,
When mine is spent.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"The Peace That Passeth Understanding"


The most radical thing about a conversion to God is the determination to love, to really love in His name.

ANNE RICE

The Wolves of Midwinter

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I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

ANNE CARSON

The Paris Review, fall 2004


Nature only shows us the tail of the lion. I am convinced, however, that the lion is attached to it, even though he cannot reveal himself directly because of his enormous size.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein


I have, I think, somewhat of an odd version of God. I do not have an intervening Go I appreciate other people's prayers for that [a cure for her cancer], but I believe that we are given a set of guidelines, and that we are obligated to live our lives with a view to those guidelines. And I don't believe that we should live our lives that way for some promise of eternal life, but because that's what's right. We should do those things because that's what's right.

ELIZABETH EDWARDS

attributed, Politics Daily, Dec. 8, 2010


It should not be so hard to believe in God, for man himself is scarcely less wonderful.

FRANK CRANE

"The Part of Me That Doubts", Four Minute Essays

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The best notion we can conceive of God, may be, that he is to the creation what the soul is to the body.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE

Essays on Men and Manners


We can no more exist without a surrounding God, than a tree can exist without a surrounding atmosphere.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful


The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

BLAISE PASCAL

Thoughts

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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth.

ANNIE BESANT

The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

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