GOD QUOTES IV

quotations about God

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If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.

TOMMY TENNEY

The God Chasers

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If you can make God bleed, then people will cease to believe in him.

WHIPLASH

Iron Man 2


If God exists, there's nobody else in God's class. God is unutterably "other." We can't use the words person or know or love--or even exist--about God in anything remotely like the way we are persons who know, love, and exist. This limitation of language gives rise to the problem of anthropomorphism, applying to God the meanings of words as they apply to us--the only beings of whom we have firsthand knowledge. This is trying to understand God as if God were patterned on us rather than the other way around.

WILLIAM J. O'MALLEY

God: The Oldest Question

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God helps them that helps themselves.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac

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Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us
O'er the world's tempestuous sea;
Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us,
For we have no help but Thee.

JAMES EDMESTON

Lead Us

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All powers, all laws, are but the fair
Embodied thoughts of God.

JOHN STUART BLACKIE

All things are full of God

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God is constantly better than his promise. He does not limit Himself by our expectations.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish

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God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.

JOSEPH ALEXANDER LEIGHTON

Typical Modern Conceptions of God


I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

JOHN LENNON

statement to reporters at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, August 11, 1966

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Each person is entitled to some version of God that seems real, yet many versions contradict one another. The God of any religion is only a fragment of God. This has to be true, because a being who is unbounded has no image, no role to play, no location either inside or outside the cosmos, whereas religions offer many images--father, mother, lawgiver, judge, ruler of the universe.

DEEPAK CHOPRA

How to Know God

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So long as you believe in a Two-Faced God, you will create ecstasy and terror side by side. You have imagined a God who is the epitome of both, and by telling yourself that you are created in the Image and Likeness of God, you have given yourself the moral authority to demonstrate both. You love and hate in the name of God.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Tomorrow's God

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Perhaps we invented the gods so that we could put the blame on them. They gave us permission to eat flesh. They gave us permission to play with unclean things. It's not our fault, it's theirs. We're just their children.

J. M. COETZEE

Elizabeth Costello


Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.

SINCLAIR LEWIS

Main Street


Without the desire for God, our planet would be a sorry wasteland of ugliness.

LUIS BARRAGÁN

acceptance speech for Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1980


At the entrance of the modern time stands the 'God-man'. At its exit will only the God in the God-man evaporate? And can the God-man really die if only the God in him dies? They did not think of this question, and thought they were finished when in our days they brought to a victorious end the work of the Enlightenment, the vanquishing of God: they did not notice that man has killed God in order to become now -- 'sole God on high'. The other world outside us is indeed brushed away, and the great undertaking of the men of the Enlightenment completed; but the other world in us has become a new heaven and calls us forth to renewed heaven-storming: God has had to give place, yet not to us, but to -- man. How can you believe that the God-man is dead before the man in him, besides the God, is dead?

MAX STIRNER

The Ego and Its Own


God is here below the most popular of all beings.... In the open fields, resting upon his implement of toil, the laborer lifts up his eyes towards heaven, and he names God to his children by an impulse as simple as his own soul. The poor call upon him, the dying invoke his name, the wicked fear him, the good bless him, kings give him their crowns to wear, armies place him at the head of their battalions, victory renders thanksgiving to him, defeat seeks help from him, nations arm themselves with him against their tyrants; there is neither place, nor time, nor circumstance, nor sentiment, in which God does not appear and is not named. Even love itself, so sure of its own charm, so confident in its own immortality, dares not to ignore him, and comes before his altars to beg from him the confirmation of the promises to which it has so often sworn.

HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE

God: Conferences Delivered at Notre Dame in Paris


I don't understand worshipping a god who denigrates women and whose 'true believers' feel it's their right to look down on anyone who doesn't think exactly as they do.

P.C. CAST & KRISTIN CAST

Chosen


What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like, "What does it matter so long as they are contented?" We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven -- a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all".

C. S. LEWIS

The Problem of Pain


The prerogative of God extendeth as well to the reason as to the will of man: so that as we are to obey His law, though we find a reluctation in our will, so we are to believe His word, though we find a reluctation in our reason.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

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Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

J.B.S. HALDANE

Possible Worlds and Other Papers

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