Quotes About God

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.

I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.

There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity.

And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.

The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God.

I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.