Quotes About God

Seek to view all of life as an opportunity to give God honor and glory.

I remember the old northern legend of how God created the taiga while he was still a child. There were few colors, but they were childishly fresh and vivid, and their subjects were simple. Later, when God grew up and became an adult, he learned to cut out complicated patters from his pages and created many bright birds. God grew bored with his former child's world and he threw snow on his forest creation and went south forever.

I believe in God, and I love my brother. But I don't want any religion that will demand I lose my individuality.

A god rejoices in an odd number.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.

Love is the only future God offers.

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no me, the me would be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has a me. This me of the infinite is God.

The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

What love commences can be finished by God alone.

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.