Quotes About God

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.

If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.

The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man

God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.