GOD QUOTES XV

quotations about God

"God is love," says the apostle. We might almost transpose the apothegm, and say "Love is God." That is, it is love which renders him worthy of our worship. It is not the power which made the worlds and allotted them their courses; it is not the wisdom which orders all of life, and suffers not even the minutest detail to escape his notice; it is not even those aesthetic qualities, which have produced in divinely-created forms of beauty the types of all art and all architecture, that render God worthy " to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing." It is that his love is such that nothing seems to him too sacred to be sacrificed to the welfare of others.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths

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Where there is most of God, there is least of self.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

JOSEPH ROUX

Meditations of a Parish Priest

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Whether men will or not, they must be subject always to the Divine Power. By denying the existence or providence of God, men may shake off their ease, but not their yoke.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan


If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

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God, to conceive him, intellect design'd;
At last, her Maker see, 'neath nature's vest!
A voice in silence whispers to the mind--
Who hath not heard that voice within his breast?

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"The Valley", Poetical Meditations


How things stand, is God.
God is, how things stand.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Notebooks, Aug. 1, 1916


Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,
But God to man doth speak in solitude.

JOHN STUART BLACKIE

Highland Solitude

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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

ANDRE GIDE

Autumn Leaves


God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

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God's voice was not in the earthquake,
Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Children of the Lord's Supper"


It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to, but more so that God is the creative energy flowing between all states of consciousness. God is in the land beyond the mountains, but God is also in the mountains and in the valley of illusions cradled within the mountains. God is not one thing or another, rather God flows between and through all things.

ELIZABETH LESSER

The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure


God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.

JOSEPH ALEXANDER LEIGHTON

"Fichte's Conception of God", The Philosophical Review, vol. 4, 1895


Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.

JOSé SARAMAGO

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ


They say that God is watching everyone all the time, so he'd always get to see his jokes play out. If so, he's laughing his butt off, assuming God has a butt, which is unlikely, since butts are also an obvious practical joke.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics


There is no servant like God. No other being so humbles himself, and so bows down under weakness, and so lifts up with his strength, as God in the plenary service of Love.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


It needed no divine revelation to assure us that God loves. The language of nature and the experience of our own hearts are an adequate witness to this truth, so simple as to be almost self-evident. That which gives to the Bible revelation of God's character its peculiar significance is the fact that it reveals him one who affords the highest exemplification of Christ's precept," Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you." The revelation of God's love, suffering for the sake of those that despise it, though so simple, is yet so august, so sublime, that our selfish hearts can not comprehend it, and our shallow philosophy obscures or denies it. Christ crucified is to-day as much as ever "unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;" as much as ever the power and wisdom of God to those that comprehend it.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths

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The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Blood Meridian

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I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

letter to Theo van Gogh, Jul. 1880

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There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.

STEVE ALLEN

Steve Allen on the Bible