Quotes About God

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?

Eternity will not be long enough to learn all He is, or to praise Him for all He has done, but then, that matters not, for we shall be always with Him, and we desire nothing more.

They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.

Rightly considered, kindness is the grand cause of God in the world. Where it is natural, it must forthwith be super-naturalized. Where it is not natural, it must be supernaturally planted. What is the purpose our life? It is a mission to go into every corner it can reach, and reconquer for God's beatitude His unhappy world back to Him.

Of course you are discontented," God thundered. "I made you discontented, because if you weren't discontented, why would you bother to try to become better?" "Better than what?" I asked, trembling in spite of myself. "Better than Me," cried God.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Gott ist] gerecht, Hofdichter. Sonst wäre die Welt keine Hölle.

Thus the sons of earth now drink in The fire of heaven without danger. And it is our duty, poets, to stand Bare-headed under the storms of God, Grasping with our own hand The Father's beam itself, And to offer the gift of heaven, Wrapped in song, to the people. From "As On a Holiday" ("Wie Wenn am Feiertage")

The God, when he draws near, will the heart stand fast. But, oh my, shame! when of My shame! And let me say at once That I approached to see the Heavenly, And they cast me down, deep down Below the living, into the dark cast down The false priest that I am, to sing, For those who have ears to hear, the warning song. There

Near and hard to grasp Is the God. But where danger is Deliverance also grows

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment—but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

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

When Zarathustra was alone… he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

The I think, I am , is, since Descartes, the basic mistake of all knowledge; thinking is not my thinking, and being is not my being, for everything is only of God or of the totality.

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.

In fact he claimed that he was removing an untenable knowledge of God in order to make room for faith.