Quotes About God

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.

I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.

There is no reward from God to those who seek it from men.

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

When a man begins to perceive the love of God in all its richness, he begins also to love his neighbor with spiritual perception. This is the love of which all the scriptures speak.

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

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

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

By Mary, God descended from Heaven into the world, so that by her men might ascend from earth into Heaven.

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.

To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.

We have enshrined in our founding documents and promoted the fundamental truth, all around the world, that the rights of all men, women and children ,not simply Americans come from God.