Quotes About God

Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

Will not God, who has commanded men to act thus, do as much himself and even more? For God commanded Peter to forgive till seventy times seven.

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

We will pray that God take the lives of these Hitler-like men from the face of the earth.

For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

...the measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men." - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans

When the Christian praises and gives thanks to God, this not only pleases God, but it enriches the Christian's life with joy. It is a reciprocating transaction between God and man.

Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.