God Quotes - Page 19

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  He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

  Aeschylus

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Pain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

  Barry Schuler

  Soul, Use, Spirituality

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• Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Spring, Men, Sea

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1927). “The Hindú View of Life: Upton Lectures Delivered at Manchester College, Oxford, 1926”

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• I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

  John Henry Newman

  Love, Voice, People

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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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• Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

  Carl Sagan

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Science

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

  Rajneesh

  Way

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• The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

  Denis Diderot

  Religious, Men, Firsts

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• That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Religious, Hands, Should Have

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

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• When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.

  Annie Besant

  Oneness, Matter, Unreality

  Annie Besant (1904). “A Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of Psychology”

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• God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Humorous, Men

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• These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.

  John Fowles

  Religious, Prayer, Believe

  John Fowles (2010). “The Collector”, p.223, Random House

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• God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Way, Instruments

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• God and all attributes of God are eternal.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Attributes, Attributes Of God, Eternal

  "Ethics". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Prop. 19, 1677.

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• My core message is that God has got a good plan for your lives, and we must trust Him, and let go of the past. That's my main message.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Past, Messages

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• Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and kind, and would not leave a hair unnumbered or let a sparrow fall unnoticed to the ground. Those who cherish such hallucinations forget that the all-loving power is inflicting tuberculosis, cancer, famine, and pestilence on the trusting, simple sons of men.

  Clarence Darrow

  Religious, Cancer, Fall

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• God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Religious, Heart, Evil

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• Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheist, Men

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.328, Princeton University Press

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• Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Faith, Peace, Simple Joys

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• "God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

  Julia Cameron

  Jesus, Giving, Christian Inspirational

  "Finding Water". Book by Julia Cameron, 2006.

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• God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

  Max Lucado

  Marriage, Government, Organization

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• Of the Divine character of the Bible, I think, no man who deals honestly with his own mind and heart can entertain a reasonable doubt, For myself, I must say, that having for many years made the evidences of Christianity the subject of close study, the result has been a firm and increasing conviction of the authenticity and plenary inspiration of the Bible. It is indeed the Word of God.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Bible, Inspiration, Heart

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