GOD QUOTES XIV

quotations about God


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Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer
Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the heighth of this great Argument
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.

JOHN MILTON
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Paradise Lost


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Where there is most of God, there is least of self.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


If God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty -- by ceasing to exist.

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

God and the State

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Remember the perfections of that God whom you worship, that he is a Spirit, and therefore to be worshipped in spirit and truth; and that he is most great and terrible, and therefore to be worshipped with seriousness and reverence, and not to be dallied with, or served with toys or lifeless lip-service; and that he is most holy, pure, and jealous, and therefore to be purely worshipped; and that he is still present with you, and all things are naked and open to him with whom we have to do. The knowledge of God, and the remembrance of his all-seeing presence, are the most powerful means against hypocrisy.

RICHARD BAXTER

Christian Ethics

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The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths, and as the hierarchy of the universe is disclosed to us, we may have to recognize this chilling truth: if there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very important gods.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

"Space and the Spirit of Man"


God is not only fatherly,
God is also mother
who lifts her loved child
from the ground to her knee.
The Trinity is like a mother's cloak
wherein the child finds a home
and lays its head on the maternal breast.

MECHTILD OF MAGDEBURG

attributed, Soul Weavings

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If God were not a necessary being of himself, he might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

JOHN TILLOTSON

Sermons


There are many men, and a large number, who, though they do not wish to be rid of God, do not very much care to have him.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Seeking After God


If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.

XENOCRATES

attributed, Personality: The Beginning and End of Metaphysics


I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.

CLAY AIKEN

Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life


My God is in the hearts of those that seek Him ... And in my heart I carry an assurance of His love that life cannot disturb. I know His love as the babe knows its mother's love, lying upon her breast. It knows her love though it neither understands her nature nor her ways.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish

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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

EMILY DICKINSON

letter to Mrs. J. G. Holland, spring 1878

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We seem to think that God speaks by seconding the ideas we've already adopted, but God nearly always catches us by surprise. If it's God's Spirit blowing, someone ends up having feathers ruffled in an unforeseen way. God tends to confound, astonish, and flabbergast.

SUE MONK KIDD

When the Heart Waits

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There is no duty in religion more generally agreed on, nor more justly required by God almighty, than a perfect submission to his will in all things: Nor is there any disposition of mind that can either please him more or become us better, than that of being satisfied with all he gives, and contented with all he takes away; none, I am sure, can be of more honour to God, nor more easy to ourselves; for if we consider him as our maker we cannot contend with him; if as our father we ought not to distrust him; so that we may be confident, whatever he does is intended for our good; and whatever happens that we may interpret otherwise, yet we cannot get nothing by repining, nor save anything by resisting.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

SRI AUROBINDO

Thoughts and Glimpses


Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

GEORGE LEONARD

The Silent Pulse


The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.

LORD ACTON

The History of Freedom in Antiquity


God Himself is simple, and employs simple men to shape the world.

JOHN UPDIKE

Terrorist


God gives as the wheat gives: we sow one grain, and reap a hundred.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,
But God to man doth speak in solitude.

JOHN STUART BLACKIE

Highland Solitude

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