GOD QUOTES VII

quotations about God

The God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

The Life of Reason


Socrates and Plato agree that God is that which is one, hath its original from its own self, is of a singular subsistence, is one only being perfectly good; all these various names signifying goodness do all centre in mind; hence God is to be understood as that mind and intellect, which is a separate idea, that is to say, pure and unmixed of all matter, and not mingled with anything subject to passions.

PLUTARCH

"What is God?", Essays & Miscellanies

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God's nature is medicinal to ours. There are no troubles which befall our suffering hearts, for which there is not in God a remedy, if only we rise to receive it.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Enoch Arden


When we say that God is infinite, we do not mean that He is of immeasurable size and duration, but that He is beyond all space and time. He is neither in space nor in time; for this reason He is eternal and infinite, and therefore He is also incomprehensible.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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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


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


If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.

ARISTOTLE

Metaphysics


I've never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith -- it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Stranger in a Strange Land

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God is a thought which makes crooked all that is straight.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spake Zarathustra


God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring--it is his will that we should love.

VICTOR HUGO

Toilers of the Sea


As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

"Does God exist?", Salon, October 2, 2011


Although I did not think much about the existence of a personal God until a considerably later period of my life, I will here give the vague conclusions to which I have been driven. The old argument from design in Nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer argue that, for instance, the beautiful hinge of a bivalve shell must have been made by an intelligent being, like the hinge of a door by man. There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows.

CHARLES DARWIN

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin


All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High above all he sits, sublimer than mountains, grander than storms, sweeter than blossoms and tender fruits, nobler than lords, truer than parents, more loving than lovers. His feet tread the lowest places of the earth; but his head is above all glory, and everywhere he is supreme.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


All nations believe the gods to be governed by a king; for men, who have made the gods after their own image, are ever hasty in ascribing to these celestial beings, human manners and human institutions.

ARISTOTLE

Politics


You cannot know God until you've stopped telling yourself that you already know God. You cannot hear God until you stop thinking you've already heard God.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Conversations with God


To know the face of God is to know madness.

LEOBEN CONOY

"Flesh and Bone", Battlestar Galactica


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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The nearer the Church the further from God.

LANCELOT ANDREWES

Sermon on the Nativity before James I

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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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