Quotes About God

Antiquity hath, too, too often bewitched the minds of men, and drawn them from the revealed will of God. Men are more willing to imitate the outward actions of their famous ancestors, than conform themselves to the revealed will of their Creator.

Those that deny the providence of God, do in effect deny the being of God; for they strip him of that wisdom, goodness, tenderness, mercy, justice, righteousness, which are the glory of the Deity.

It is a great folly to deny or doubt of the existence or being of God: or, an atheist is a great fool.

God's providence is designed to do good for his people. God takes meticulous care to ensure our ultimate blessing. His scrupulous care in the unfolding of providence, despite any appearance to the contrary, is calculated to achieve the redemption of his people. All things work together for their good (Rom 8:28) - good things and evil things.

The more we act love upon God, as amiable and gracious, the more we should exercise grief in ourselves, as we are vile and offending. Spiritual worship is a melting worship, as well as an elevating worship; it exalts God, and debaseth the creature.

To desire worship as an end is carnal; to desire it as a means, and act desires in it for communion with God in it, is spiritual, and the fruit of a spiritual life.

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty!

The fundamental experience of human suffering is the experience of alienation from the self, from the source—from God.

Each and every person has the light of God within," she said.

God sees into my innermost heart and knows that as a man I perform most conscientiously and on all occasions the duties which Humanity, God and Nature enjoin upon me Ã¢â'¬Â¦

The mantra becomes one's staff of life," he wrote, "and carries one through every ordeal Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Each repetition Ã¢â'¬Â¦ has a new meaning, each repetition carries you nearer and nearer to God.

But Marion realized, overnight, that she had a new dharma. It was called cancer. She wrote in her journal: "When [God] is moving you toward a new consciousness, you need to recognize the winds of change at once, move with them instead of clinging to what is already gone." Wow. Not much holding on there. It was an instinctive move: Recognize the winds of change at once. Move with them.

Like Frost's, our job is to make choices that create the right conditions for dharma to flourish. The Gift is indestructible. It is a seed. We are not required to be God. We are not required to create the seed. Only to plant it wisely and

I was not made for man," Anthony would later declare flatly. "I was made for God. And I was made for myself.

Duncan B. Forrester, James Ian Hamilton McDonald, Gian Tellini. Encounter with God. T. T. Clark International: NY, 2004

They were going to look at war, the red animal--war, the blood-swollen god.

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.

It was not that she felt any allegiance to the truth. God knows she had cheated on too many men for the truth to be more than a stumbling block. But sometimes falsehood took more strength than she could summon up.

Jefferson could write, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

Eddy believed that everyone, not just a few mystics and saints, has an unimaginably rich potential relation to God that can be entered into amidst everyday life.

the derivative of experience." When toward the end of the chapter "Prayer" in Science and Health Eddy writes, "Christians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden from the world, but known to God," one senses that her words were rooted in her life.

God not only plays dice, He throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.