Quotes About God

I don't have any answers, but in my personal opinion, I'm a person that has faith and I believe that a lot of people have neglected God.

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

Not Forgive us for our sins but Smite us for our iniquities should be the prayer of man to a most just God.

Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure, swift penalty along with it. There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are the two things that govern us

O we are wearied of this sense of guilt, Wearied of pleasure's paramour despair, Wearied of every temple we have built, Wearied of every unanswered right, unanswered prayer, For man is weak; God sleeps: and heaven is high: One fiery-colored moment: one great love: and lo! we die.

I wish I had, for as sure as there is a God in heaven, if he ever does you any wrong, I shall kill him.

So you think that it is only God who sees the soul? Draw that curtain back, and you will see mine.

Nay! for perchance that poppy-crownèd god Is like the watcher by a sick man's bed Who talks of sleep but gives it not; his rod Hath lost its virtue, and, when all is said, Death is too rude, too obvious a key To solve one single secret in a life's philosophy. And

I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken it as some message from God, a warning of things to come, a perfect description of my mashed-potato character

Their useless torches on dry hedges throw, That catch the flames, and kindle all the row; So burns the God, consuming in desire, And feeding in his breast a fruitless fire

If a god said 'Live, and set love aside' I'd say 'no'! Girls are such sweet misfortune.

I reckon some parsons have a right to tell you to be good. The bishop of this hyeh territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.

That night, at God knows what hour, Bill phoned me up and shouted, 'Ozzy, I think my house is haunted!' 'Sell tickets then,' I told him, and put the phone down.

Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in

My God, man! I gargled. The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?

We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.

Currently, our minds are devoted to things we do not want. Our positive intentions occupy but a tiny sliver of our minds. The rest is focused on the problems we hope the intentions will eliminate. The majority of our brainpower is devoted to the old beliefs of scarcity, problem relationships, and a God who shoots fire bolts from heaven. The

Our ideas of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him." —THOMAS MERTON, CHRISTIAN MYSTIC

For the people of my country, Renato said, water is everything: love, life, religion... even God. It is like that for me too, I said. In English we call that a metaphor. Of course, said Renato, and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.

a person can't tame God. He's wild as a lion. He'll haunt you.

Attachment to the notion of a god outside you is a curse. You must overcome it. Rediscover your luminous Self and embrace it wholeheartedly.

In sleep, you do not know whether you are a man or a woman, he said. Just as a man, impersonating a woman, does not become one, so the soul, impersonating both man and woman, has no sex. The soul is the pure, changeless image of God.

O MAN! Offer Thy labyrinthine longings into a monotheistic bonfire consecrated to the unparalleled God. Burn desire for human affection in the fire of aspiration for GOD alone, a love solitary because omnipresent! Throw faggot of ignorance to incandesce the blaze of insight! Devour all sorrows in the sorrow for God's absence. Consume all regrets in meditative bliss!