God Quotes - Page 18

• God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Grief, Heart, Tears

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• So, you pay attention to what is in every moment. And when you do that, then you realize that the presence of God is everywhere.

  Deepak Chopra

  Attention, Pay, Realizing

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• The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moss, Doctrine, Cobwebs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.289, Library of America

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• For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now.

  Byron Katie

  Needs

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• In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Needs, Asceticism

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Life, Letting Go, Truth

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Screenplays”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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• I have a thousand brilliant lies
  For the question:
  How are you?
  
  I have a thousand brilliant lies
  For the question:
  What is God?
  
  If you think that the Truth can be known
  From words,
  
  If you think that the Sun and the Ocean
  Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,
  
  O someone should start laughing!
  Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!

  Hafez

  Truth, Lying, Ocean

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• There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

  John von Neumann

  Easier, Ifs

  "John Von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence and Much More". Book by Norman Macrae, 1992.

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• Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

  Francine Rivers

  Godly, God Love, Disappoint

  Francine Rivers (2016). “The Francine Rivers Contemporary Collection: Leota's Garden / And the Shofar Blew”, p.669, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Men, Impossible

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.902, Library of Alexandria

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• I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

  William P. Young

  Trying, Santa, Far Away

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• Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.

  Leonardo Boff

  Attitude, Spirituality, Stagnation

  Leonardo Boff (1995). “Ecologia, Mondialità, Mistica”

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• We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Father, Soul, Sublime

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 270), 1895.

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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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• 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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• I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.

  Kedar Joshi

  Design, World, Existence

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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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• So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Art, Kindness, Women

  'The World's Need'

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• The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Believer, Traditional, Universe

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• God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Majority, Mankind, Unfathomable

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.5, North Atlantic Books

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• What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!

  Marquis de Sade

  Religious, Men, Forever

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• For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Reality, Years, Thirty

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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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• 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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• Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to His kids.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.38, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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