God quotes

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Where love is, there God is also.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Heaven means to be one with God.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.