Quotes About God

Afirmar la absoluta omnipotencia de Dios y su absoluta disponibilidad con respecto a sus propias opciones, ¿no equivale a demostrar que Dios no existe?

God is pure nothingness, touched by neither Now nor Here. The Name of The Rose

Adiós, Guillermo, eres un inglés loco y arrogante, pero tienes un gran corazón, ¿Volveremos a vernos? —Sin duda —lo tranquilizó Guillermo—, Dios lo querrá. Pero Dios no lo quiso.

You mean that between desiring good and desiring evil there is a brief step, because it is always a matter of directing the will. This is true. But the difference lies in the object, and the object is clearly recognizable. God on this side, the Devil on that.

which reminds me of a saying attributed to Arthur Rubenstein: 'Do you believe in God? No, I believe in something much greater.' The best way we can manage to imagine in trying to conceive of God is the classic night in which all cows are black.

The social theory of conspiracy, Popper says, is a consequence of the end of God as a reference point and of the consequent question, Who is there in his place? This place is now occupied by various men and powerful, sinister groups that can be blamed for having organized the Great Depression and all the evils we suffer.10

Nel suo genere x'è un dio. X'è il genere che x'è merda.

Maar het is me vaak gebeurd dat ik de verleidelijkste voorstellingen van de zonde juist aantrof in de geschriften van die mannen van onkreukbare deugdzaamheid, die de bekoring en de invloeden ervan veroordeelden. Teken dat zij worden gedreven door een zodanige ijver om van de waarheid te getuigen dat zij, uit liefde voor God, niet aarzelen aan het kwaad alle verlokkingen toe te schrijven waarin het zich hult, om de mensen beter in kennis te stellen van de manieren waarop de Boze hen bekoort.

If the pope, the bishops, and the priests were not subject to the worldly and coercive power of the prince, the authority of the prince would be challenged, and thus, with it, an order would be challenged that, as had been demonstrated previously, had been decreed by God.

Gott ist ein lauter Nichts, ihn rührt kein Nun noch Hier. . . .

he was thinking of the endless array of symbols with which God, through His creatures, speaks to us of the eternal life. But the universe is even more talkative than Alanus thought, and it speaks not only of the ultimate things (which it does always in an obscure fashion) but also of closer things, and then it speaks quite clearly.

Cu cât îmb?trânesc, cu atât m? las mai mult în voia lui Dumnezeu, ÅŸi preÅ£uiesc tot mai puÅ£in inteligenÅ£a care vrea s? ÅŸtie ÅŸi voinÅ£a care vrea s? fac?; ÅŸi recunosc ca singur? cale spre mântuire credinÅ£a, care ÅŸtie s? aÅŸtepte cu r?bdare, f?r? s? întrebe prea mult.

Si Dieu existait, il serait une bibliothèque.

Sería atroz —comentó Guillermo— matar a un hombre para decir Credo in unum Deum…

Will you tell me, William, you who know so much about heretics that you seem one of them, where the truth lies? Nowhere, at times, William said, sadly. You see? You yourself can no longer distinguish between one heretic and another. I at least have a rule. I know that heretics are those who endanger the order that sustains the people of God. And I defend the empire because it guarantees this order for me.

Gott ist ein lautes Nichts, ihn rührt kein Nun noch Hier. Tanr? kocaman bir hiçtir, ne ÅŸimdi ilgilendirir onu ne de buras?.

And now was one to believe that there was nowhere a god of hogs, to whom this hog personality was precious, to whom these hog squeals and agonies had a meaning?

Millions of ideas, constantly changing and shifting, drifting into consciousness and out again, and all supposedly at random, with no "soul" to direct them! No purpose, no goal, though every materialist was a living determination to destroy the idea of a soul, and of a God who had anything to do with a purely accidental universe! What a strange accident, that men should labor so purposefully to destroy the idea of purpose!

In the city as nowhere else we are reminded that we are individuals, units. Yet the idea of the city remains; it is the god of the city we pursue, in vain.

We must intentionally help our children process the world through God's eyes.

The Discipline of Study helps us 'renew our minds' through intentional learning so that we have the mind of Christ, seeing people, situations, and events as God views them.

The Discipline of Solitude invites us to empty our lives and minds of constant noise and clutter so that we may be filled with the still small voice of God and that from hearing God's voice we can speak to a hurting world.

At the pace many of us live, we desperately need to hear Jesus call us to come away and rest, to withdraw from the fever and pitch of our lives and to refresh and restore ourselves in the Spirit of Christ. We need a quiet environment to let our souls rest in God. As we learn to practice this discipline, we become better at speaking words of comfort and direction to the people around us. We discover that silence is not empty when God fills it.

The Discipline of Worship helps us develop a life dedicated to giving God honor and glory in all that we say and do.