God Quotes

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There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

J. B. S. Haldane

All societies of men must be governed in some way or other. The less they may have of stringent State Government, the more they must have of individual self-government. The less they rely on public law or physical force, the more they must rely on private moral restraint. Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the Word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet. It may do for other countries and other governments to talk about the State supporting religion. Here, under our own free institutions, it is Religion which must support the State.

Robert Charles Winthrop

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Ávila

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

James L. Buckley

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And God smiled; and when he saw that Man had become perfect in renunciation and worship, he sent another sun thru the sky, which crashed into Man's sun; and all returned again to nebula... "Yes," he murmured, "it was a good play; I will have it performed again."

Bertrand Russell

Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

God once declared He was true
And then took the veil and withdrew....

O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

Ever fresh the broad creation,
A divine improvisation,
From the heart of God proceeds,
A single will, a million deeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

You ask 'for what' God wants you. Isn't the primary answer that He wants you. We're not told that the lost sheep was sought out for anything except itself [Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:3-7]. Of course, He may have a special job for you: and the certain job is that of becoming more and more His.

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness. All things beside seem to be called in for shelter, and what stays out must be part of the original frame of the universe, and of such valor as God himself.

Henry David Thoreau

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

John F. Kennedy

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?

It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

George Bernard Shaw