Quotes
Quotes about God
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did.".
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.
Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
"I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image and likeness." "Just as man created God, then?" observed Alyosha.
No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore, "For God's sake," others to assist. [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen, Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]
It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He, too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.
God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard.
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.
'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it. - Elizabeth I,
But in come canine Paradise Your wraith, I know, rebukes the moon, And quarters every plain and hill, Seeking its master. . . . As for me This prayer at least the gods fulfill That when I pass the flood and see Old Charon by Stygian coast Take toll of all the shades who land, Your little, faithful barking ghost May leap to lick my phantom hand.
The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.
But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt, And doubt is brother devil to Despair!
If the mind is open and awake then.... do the gods partake to fill the spaces inbetween the dreamer and his dream.
Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.
To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
