Quotes About God

The failure of this experiment of communal service, which was tried for several years, and by good and honest men proves the emptiness of the theory of Plato and other ancients, applauded by some of later times, — that the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth, would make a state happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God.

Locke sank into a swoon;The Garden died;God took the spinning-jennyOut of his side.

And God stands winding His lonely horn,And time and the world are ever in flight.

The years like great black oxen tread the world And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

Only God, my dear,Could love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair.

One sinks in on God; we do not see the truth; God sees the truth in us…. Tell them, Fool, that when the life and the mind are broken, the truth comes through them like peas through a broken peascod.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

I heard an old religious man But yesternight declare That he had found a text to prove That only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

Certainly many if not most of Sufi love poems can be read as if they were addressed to a woman. In fact, without doubt a certain number of them were inspired by a woman's beautiful features, but this did not prevent the poet from viewing her loveliness as the mirror of God's Beauty. (p. 287)

The temporal cannot know the Eternal, so to the extent that the Sufi contemplates God in his heart, God Himself is the contemplator: Ultimately, the Witness, the Witnesser, and the Witnessing are all one. (p. 288)

The questions involved for the habit of discernment are: • Am I becoming more present to the triune God in all of life? • What is my sense of attentiveness to God? • What is my sense of distraction from God? • What is my belief about God's active involvement in the present moment?

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

I feel that it is good to commit my Soul, my Body, and my all into the Hands of God, Then the World appears little, the Promises great; and God an allsufficient Portion.

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer. However the influence of the Holy Spirit may be set at nought, and run down by many, it will be found upon trial, that all means which we can use, without it, will be ineffectual. If a temple is raised for God in the heathen world, it will not be by might, nor by power, nor by the authority of the magistrate, or the eloquence of the orator; but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.

God made the country, and man made the town.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.

Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God"...

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

Though nameless, trampled, and forgot, His servant's humble ashes lie, Yet God has marked and sealed the spot, To call its inmate to the sky.