Quotes About God

The slaughter lasted the best part of two days. When it was over, the crusade leaders went in solemn procession to the church of the Holy Sepulchre to give thanks to God'' !!

Faith is an act whereby they learn their God.

They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.

Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didn't sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not sign up for Danger God. You're flatly not safe…

So in a man's mind, he appraises, negotiates, defines, delineates, weighs the information, and that includes God. As you can see, this is a relationship of management, not trust. You don't trust things you can manage, you manage them. And so, God as information is managed and no relationship of trust is fostered.

Why not have a God in your back pocket for when you need Him? That's all most of them mean by 'Christian.

Most of them don't mind too much the idea of a God existing somewhere, just so long as He's indulgent.

They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity. They do not think upon the "God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God." They prefer to think in terms of "God liking them." That's the God they've conjured for themselves.

The eye is to light as the soul is to God.

Faith is where they learn about their God; but Prayer is where they explore Him.

True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about "knowing God," they mean more than, "I understand what you're saying about God," but also, "It fits my experience of Him.

Marie dini bir kitap okumaktad?r. - " Ve aÄŸz?ndan hiç yalan ç?kmad?…Tanr?m! Tanr?m! Bakma bana! Ama ona bir kad?n getirdiler, kocas?n? aldatm??, orta yere diktiler… O dediki seni lanetlemiyorum. Çekil git kar??mdan.

We do not have too much pain in this life, we have too little... Because through pain we arrive at God. We are death, dust, ashes... how should we complain?

God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? {Said in a letter to Voltaire }

Is our conception of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

Deus criou o homem à sua imagem. Isso provavelmente significa: o homem criou Deus à sua própria imagem.

What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all mans animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to Gods sanctity

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.

Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

This life is not given to us as a pastime. There was a solemn purpose in our creation, in the life that God has given to us. Let us study what that purpose is, that we may progress and obtain eternal life.