Quotes About God

In other words, it must be the same to you, when you do perceive this unity, whether we say, God has wisely willed it so, or nature has wisely arranged it so.

Io non trovo mai nessuna difficoltà ad ammettere di essermi sbagliato perché sono convinto che l'infallibilità sia un'esclusiva di Dio e degli imbecilli.

As pesquisas', diz [Revel], 'dão o seguinte resultado: à pergunta sobre em quem votarão, 53 por cento dos entrevistados responderam que votarão com a esquerda. Quando perguntados sobre quem vencerá, 54 por cento responderam: a direita. Eis a França dita cartesiana. Se lhes perguntassem se acreditam em Deus, 70 por cento responderiam que não. Mas, se lhes fosse perguntado se crêem que Jesus seja o filho de Deus, 80 por cento responderiam que sim.

Un universo di pensieri attraversò in un secondo la mente di Lucile: 'Forse è lui?' si disse, 'che ha fatto prigioniero Gaston, Mio Dio, quanti francesi avrà ucciso? Quante lacrime saranno state versate a causa sua? é anche vero che se la guerra fosse andata diversamente oggi sarebbe Gaston a entrare da padrone in una casa tedesca. è la guerra, non è colpa di questo ragazzo.

Beware: forget the reworking of characters. Obviously, the time-span is short. The first three parts, in any case, will only cover a period of three years. As for the last two, well that's God's secret and what I wouldn't give to know it.

What a beautiful horse! They really do have beautiful horses, by God." The young girls sighed. Then the bitter voice of some old man dozing by the stove called out, "Sure they do, they're our horses!

Sometimes God Calms the Storm…Sometimes He Lets the Storm Rage and Calms His Child.

Hessen? Dr. Mengele. Everything's fine, there's nothing to worry about. Exactly the amateur I expected. I don't think he even understood German. Send the boys home to practice their signatures; it was just an excitement to round off the evening. No, not till 1977, I'm afraid; I fly back to the compound as soon as we clean up. So go with God, Horst. And say it for me to the others: 'Go with God.'" He hung up and said, "Heil Hitler.

A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.' Moira smiled as she quoted the ancient sage, then shrugged. It made sense to me. After that, I started laying my problems and needs before God and asking for grace and guidance and whatever other virtues he thought I needed.

Faith is a funny thing. It's easy to believe while life is rolling merrily along. But in times of trial, it's tempting to turn away from God. Yet that's when we need him the most.

As for coincidences—I like that old saying about them being small miracles in which God chooses to remain anonymous.

But my core belief—that no matter what happens, God is with me—never wavers. And it's a great comfort to know that once you turn your life over to him, you never have to face anything alone again." He

I've learned never to discount possibilities because of the odds—because all things are possible with God.

But as Colin always reminded her when she raised such questions, trying to understand the mind of God was an exercise in futility. You had to trust in his goodness and accept that he saw the bigger picture, even if your own lens was murky.

he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.

The death of God has set the angels free. And they are terrible. There are principalities and powers. Angels are the thoughts of God. Now he had been dissolved into his thoughts which are beyond our conception in their nature and their multiplicity and their power. God was at least the name of something which we thought was good. Now even the name has gone and the spiritual world is scattered. There is nothing any more to prevent the magnetism of many spirits.

Our planet is a freak which we shall destroy by our own wicked senseless activities in the next century. Our history will very soon come to an end. Now that God is dead, we are at last presented with the truth, yes, the truth remains, but it is on a short lead. Anyway, we are nothing and it matters not what we do.

As soon as any idea is a consolation the tendency to falsify it becomes strong: hence the traditional problem of preventing the idea of God from degenerating in the believer's mind.

Art must invent new beauty, not play with what has already been made, religion must invent God and never rest.

God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.

Suffering is no scandal. It is natural. Nature appoints it. All creation suffers. It suffers from having been created, if from nothing else. It suffers from being divided from God.' 'Yours is a melancholy sort of religion, Dennis. I'm afraid I don't believe in God.' 'Ah, you do. But you do not know His name. And I who know His name am only the better of you by one little word. Here is the salmon pool.

I see him as a god from elsewhere who has lost his way . . .

He looked so sad. I never saw him look sad before, he was always so superior, everywhere the king. You once called him a god from elsewhere who had lost his way.