GOD QUOTES VII

quotations about God

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Enoch Arden


The true God is not a form idealized; he/she/it is real and therefore, by definition, imperfect; only an abstraction can be free of flaws. And since God is imperfect, there will be suffering.... There is no perfect God. And your suffering requires no more explanation than that unavoidable imperfection.

ROBERT J. SAWYER

Calculating God


God is a thought which makes crooked all that is straight.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spake Zarathustra


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)

Tags: Edward Abbey


We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

Tags: Henry Ward Beecher


When we say that God is infinite, we do not mean that He is of immeasurable size and duration, but that He is beyond all space and time. He is neither in space nor in time; for this reason He is eternal and infinite, and therefore He is also incomprehensible.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: Sabine Baring-Gould


If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.

ARISTOTLE

Metaphysics


The best notion we can conceive of God, may be, that he is to the creation what the soul is to the body.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE

Essays on Men and Manners


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


You cannot know God until you've stopped telling yourself that you already know God. You cannot hear God until you stop thinking you've already heard God.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Conversations with God


God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring--it is his will that we should love.

VICTOR HUGO

Toilers of the Sea


I've never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith -- it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Stranger in a Strange Land

Tags: Robert A. Heinlein


God Himself has no right to be a tyrant.

WILLIAM GODWIN

Sketches of History

Tags: William Godwin


Socrates and Plato agree that God is that which is one, hath its original from its own self, is of a singular subsistence, is one only being perfectly good; all these various names signifying goodness do all centre in mind; hence God is to be understood as that mind and intellect, which is a separate idea, that is to say, pure and unmixed of all matter, and not mingled with anything subject to passions.

PLUTARCH

"What is God?", Essays & Miscellanies

Tags: Plutarch


What were a God who only gave the world a push from without, or let it spin around His finger? I look for a God who moves the world from within, who fosters nature in Himself, Himself in nature; so that naught of all that lives and moves and has its being in Him ever forgets His force or His spirit.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

"Phoœmion"

Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The nearer the Church the further from God.

LANCELOT ANDREWES

Sermon on the Nativity before James I

Tags: Lancelot Andrewes


To know the face of God is to know madness.

LEOBEN CONOY

"Flesh and Bone", Battlestar Galactica


Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator,
Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names:
And without having need to hear thy word,
In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

"Prayer", Poetical Meditations


It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Stranger in a Strange Land


I have, I think, somewhat of an odd version of God. I do not have an intervening Go I appreciate other people's prayers for that [a cure for her cancer], but I believe that we are given a set of guidelines, and that we are obligated to live our lives with a view to those guidelines. And I don't believe that we should live our lives that way for some promise of eternal life, but because that's what's right. We should do those things because that's what's right.

ELIZABETH EDWARDS

attributed, Politics Daily, Dec. 8, 2010