Quotes
Quotes about God
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12].
Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.
It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.
Restore to God His due in tithe and time; A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate.
God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.
God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are they are they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God.
Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.
I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
Light Winged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. -Henry David Thoreau-.
O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level. and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea!
I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies very ridiculous!" God has granted it to me.
For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
Where there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
