GOD QUOTES IX

quotations about God

A bad God is worse than no God at all.

LYMAN ABBOTT

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

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Though cares and sorrows e'er must come,
Though heart be rent,
I know that God will give me strength,
When mine is spent.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"The Peace That Passeth Understanding"


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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God's image is in every man, high or low--a road puddle holds the moon as well as the sea.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

EDWARD ABBEY

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)

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The difference between the truth of God and revelation is very simple. Truth is where God's been. Revelation is where God is. Truth is God's tracks. It's His trail, His path, but it leads to what? It leads to Him. Perhaps the masses of people are happy to know where God's been, but true God chasers are not content just to study God's trail, His truths; they want to know Him. They want to know where He is and what He's doing right now.

TOMMY TENNEY

The God Chasers

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It should not be so hard to believe in God, for man himself is scarcely less wonderful.

FRANK CRANE

"The Part of Me That Doubts", Four Minute Essays

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What a wonderfully small idea mankind has of the Almighty. My impression is that he has made unchangeable laws to govern this and billions of other worlds and that he has forgotten even the existence of this little mote of ours ages ago.

THOMAS EDISON

diary entry, Jul. 21, 1885


Let us get rid of this notion that we must always associate the thoughts of God with a spirit of great solemnity. Gayety and God are not mutually exclusive.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Seeking After God

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God, that checkroom of our dreams.

JEAN ROSTAND

The Substance of Man


As the innermost Essence of God is self-existence, so the cosmos (by which we mean everything not-God) is essentially dependent on God as its first and sole cause. The universe is no ens a se; it is entirely ab alio. This dependency is co-existent with the universe in all its phases. From the moment of its creation down to the hour of its consummation the universe is and remains essentially ens ab alio. It depends on God for its being and operation, and would sink back into nothingness without Him.

JOSEPH POHLE

God: The Author of Nature and the Supernatural


I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

History of Woman Suffrage


God Himself has no right to be a tyrant.

WILLIAM GODWIN

Sketches of History

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God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.

PHILIP YANCEY

Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?


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


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


The flame of my life burns low
Under the cluttered days,
Like a fire of leaves.
But always a little blue, sweet-smelling smoke
Goes up to God.

KARLE WILSON BAKER

Blue Smoke

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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Year of the Flood


Let nothing disturb thee,
Let nothing affright thee;
All passeth away:
God only shall stay.
Patience wins all:
Who hath God, needeth nothing;
For God is his All.

SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Exclamations of the Soul to God


In the face of nature's overwhelming forces, humans needed a God who would protect them from harm. When they felt that they had broken the law or committed wrongdoing, people turned to a God who would judge them on the one hand and redeem their sins on the other. In this way, purely from slef-interest, the project of creating God in our own image proceeded--and continues to proceed.

DEEPAK CHOPRA

How to Know God

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