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Quotes About Definition

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.
~ Huston Smith
Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
~ Samuel Butler
Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state
~ Louis Berkhof
According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.
~ Pete Seeger
Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
~ Aaron Allston
He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
~ Plato
How dare the world define beauty. God defined beauty when he made you! You are beautiful, you are a true beauty just the way you are!
~ Rachel Hamilton
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
~ Madame de Stael
The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
~ Billy Graham
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.
~ Carl Sagan
I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.
~ Norman Lear
Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
~ Ellen Hopkins
I think we try to box and put God in some limited definition, which is impossible.
~ Paula White
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God's vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!
~ Alan Rickman
I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.
~ Edward Boyden
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.
~ Benjamin Tucker
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
~ Glenn Greenwald
I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.
~ Andy Samberg
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.
~ George Mikes