Quotes About God

Coherence comes from a deep center, which is the heart. Ultimately it's the heart of the human being connected to Infinite Spirit. When the self is connected to the heart, and the heart is connected to God, you have coherence. It's really that simple. The practice we call "the remembrance of God" is the channel to that coherence. (p. 14)

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

Weinberg happily realized that at Berkeley, "Bohr was God and Oppie was his prophet.

Scientists aren't responsible for the facts that are in nature. . . . If anyone should have a sense of sin, it's God. He put the facts there.

Ist der Pharao ein Gott, weil die Ägypter ihn als Gott verehren? Für sie mag er einer sein. Für euch nicht. Göttlichkeit liegt allein im Auge des Betrachters.

Auch Gott ist immer nur in denjenigen, der an ihn glaubt.

Rumors and lies about a person can be fabricated by anyone. But what matters is the truth between you and God. - Kailin Gow

There's a temple to a dark god or some such in the basement. I'll be there." "Ah, yes…that can happen if one doesn't keep an eye on the drains…

Our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him. We boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is Matter that has enslaved us.

In the Christian context, we do not mean by a "mystery" merely that which is baffling and mysterious, an enigma or insoluble problem. A mystery is, on the contrary, something that is revealed for our understanding, but which we never understand exhaustively because it leads into the depth or the darkness of God. The eyes are closed—but they are also opened.

If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the Way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human. For it is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.

We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.

Such, then, is our God: unknowable in his essence, yet known in his energies; beyond and above all that we can think or express, yet closer to us than our own heart.

Joyful thanksgiving, so far from being escapist or sentimental, is on the contrary entirely realistic—but with the realism of one who sees the world in God, as the divine creation.

Our reasoning brain is weak, and our tongue is weaker still", remarks St Basil the Great. "It is easier to measure the entire sea with a tiny cup than to grasp God's ineffable greatness with the human mind."10

Because God is a mystery beyond our understanding, we shall never know his essence or inner being, either in this life or in the Age to come. If we knew the divine essence, it would follow that we knew God in the same way as he knows himself; and this we cannot ever do, since he is Creator and we are created. But, while God's inner essence is for ever beyond our comprehension, his energies, grace, life and power fill the whole universe, and are directly accessible to us.

In order to find God, we do not have to leave the world, to isolate ourselves from our fellow humans, and to plunge into some kind of mystical void. On the contrary, Christ is looking at us through the eyes of all those whom we meet. Once we recognize his universal presence, all our acts of practical service to others become acts of prayer.

All things are permeated and maintained in being by the uncreated energies of God, and so all things are a theophany that mediates his presence (pp. 21-23). At the heart of each thing is its inner principle or logos, implanted within it by the Creator Logos; and so through the logoi we enter into communion with the Logos (p. 33). God is above and beyond all things, yet as Creator he is also within all things—"panentheism", not pantheism

When St Antony of Egypt was asked, "What rules shall I keep so as to please God?", he replied: "Wherever you go, have God always before your eyes; in whatever you do or say, have an example from the Holy Scriptures; and whatever the place in which you dwell, do not be quick to move elsewhere. Keep these three things, and you will live.

The only pure and all-sufficient source of the doctrines of the faith", writes Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow, "is the revealed word of God, contained in the Holy Scriptures.