Quotes
Quotes about God
They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything.
A mighty fortress is our God,
A bulwark never failing;
Our helper He amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing.
Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen!
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly 't is a rare bird in the land.
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
The mariner of old said to Neptune in a great tempest, "O God! thou mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayest destroy me; but whether or no, I will steer my rudder true."
The world's a stage where God's omnipotence,
His justice, knowledge, love, and providence
Do act the parts.
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein;
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave.
Help thyself, and God will help thee.
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain.
Only one thing is necessary: to possess God--All the senses, all the forces of the soul and of the spirit, all the exterior resources are so many open outlets to the Divinity; so many ways of tasting and of adoring God. We should be able to detach ourselves from all that is perishable and cling absolutely to the eternal and the absolute and enjoy the all else as a loan, as a usufruct.... To worship, to comprehend, to receive, to feel, to give, to act: this our law, our duty, our happiness, our heaven.
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light
Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
One that feared God and eschewed evil.
The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
