Quotes About God

It is good to think that in Heaven all troubles will be over, that war and carnage will be no more, that all injustice, cruelty and wrong shall be no more; but incomparably better is it for a man to gird on the whole armour of truth and righteousness, and wage war with these evils, and banish them from the Earth -- and thus have the will of God done on Earth as done in Heaven.

I was suddenly and sharply interrupted by my good old friend Sojourner Truth with a question, Frederick, is God dead? No, I answered, and because God is not dead slavery can only end in blood.

Perhaps I am even envious of Stendhal? He robbed me of the best atheist joke which precisely I could have made: 'God's only excuse is that he does not exist'...I myself have said somewhere: what hitherto been the greatest objection to existence? God ...

I would only believe in a God that wold know how to dance.

Those who have abandoned God cling that much more firmly to the faith in morality.

Nah ist Und schwer zu fassen der Gott. Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst Das Rettende auch.

When brother fled from brother, when lovers passed Each other by in ignorance, when fathers failed To recognize their sons, when human words no more Were understood, nor human laws, that was when The meaning of it all assailed me and I trembled: It was my nation's parting god!

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders?

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

In letting God sit in judgment they judge themselves; in glorifying God they glorify themselves.

Reason in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

I would believe only in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity - through him all things fall.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Without music, life would be a mistake.. I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

Everything in proximity to the hero becomes tragedy; everything in proximity to the demigod becomes satyr-play; and everything in proximity to God becomes...what? world perhaps?

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a colossal, horrible shadow. God is dead, but given the way people are, there may still be caves for millennia in which his shadow is displayed. -- And we -- we must still defeat his shadow as well!