God Quotes - Page 13

• God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

  James McBride

  Color, Water, Religion

  James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.39, A&C Black

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• The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

  Blaise Pascal

  Valentines Day, Knowledge, Knowledge Of God

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.94, Letcetera Publishing

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• The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Spiritual, Journey

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• The dice of God are always loaded.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Luck, Dice, Chance

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Compensation'.

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• As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Long, Heaven, Earth

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1980). “Bakunin on anarchism”

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• Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Passion, Men, Reason

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 21, 1799.

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• The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Spiritual, Confused, Mean

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• Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Great Unknown

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• I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].”, p.141

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• God can only do for you what He can do through you.

  Eric Butterworth

  Can Do

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• Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mom, Thinking, Ivy

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Grief, Past, Self

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• We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Grace

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• We are on the planet to... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us.

  Michael Beckwith

  Treasure, Spirituality, Consciousness

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• It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Acceptable, Only Love

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• If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Circles, Doe

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Sky, Challenges

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• God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Spring, Love Is

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• Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. God directs angels, men, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature: and man having been created free, he is led freely.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Nature, Moving, Believe

  "The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment".

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• It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Men, Names

  1849 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,'Sunday'.

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• We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Humble, House, Desire

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• Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it to illuminate our cities, guide our airlines through the night skies and take the most accurate measurements. What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electrons as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?

  Wernher von Braun

  Real, Airplane, Knowledge

  Letter to California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.

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• To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

  Georges Bataille

  Pain, Mean, Evil

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• Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

  Jean Anouilh

  Beauty, Autumn, Doubt

  "Becket". Play by Jean Anouilh, Act 1, 1959.

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• For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

  George Whitefield

  Men, Made, All Things

  John Gillies, George Whitefield (1839). “Memoirs of Rev. George Whitefield”, p.299

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