Quotes About God

Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.

There must be some supreme creative energy, he thought, that can take love and turn it into synapses and then take a population of synapses and turn it into love. The hand of God must be there

You can't really know God if you ignore his laws, especially the ones that regulate the most intimate spheres of life. You may be responsible and healthy, but you will also be shallow and inconsequential.

I told Marilyn that God told me, "David, if you believe in me, I'm going to be deeply disappointed." I replied, "Don't worry, big guy, I've got your back!

Chocolate or a good man can instigate your heart's surrender, but full-bodied pleasure and overflowing love—opening until you are exposed fully to God as love's bliss—is the only way to live true to your deepest desire, with or without a trustable lover or a tasty dessert.

As was Israel, so Jesus is tempted by hunger (Exod 16:1–8), tempted to worship something other than God (Exod 32), and tempted to put God to the test (Exod 17:1–3).

Why are the people all so unhappy? he asked Mister Wolf. They have a stern and demanding God, Wolf replied. Which God is that? Garion asked. Money, Wolf said.

Priests are pretty much the same the world over. They seem to feel that their exclusive contact with God gives them a certain job security.

You'd think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.

For what place can be left for anything to happen at random so long as God controls everything in order? It is a true saying that nothing can come out of nothing.

Why are the people all so unhappy? he asked Mister Wolf. They have a stern and demanding God, Wolf replied. Which God is that? Garion asked. Money, Wolf said. Money's a worse God than Torak himself.

No one seems to realise that the aristocracy is God's special gift to mankind. The burghers treat us no better than commoners. Considering our divine origins, such disrespect is the worst form of impiety. I'm sure your Grace agrees.

You'd think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.' ~Althalus

In the one, we find in ourselves the resources to make the journey to God. In the other, there is no journey except God provide its means and take us by the hand to its end. The one, then, is all about self-assertion albeit clothed and hidden in noble religious language. The other is about grace, and that grace can work only as the self is not simply mortified, or disciplined, but dies. In one, there is self-seeking; in the other, there is self-abnegation.

La santidad de Dios y su amor se encuentran, siempre y en todos sitios, inseparables, porque pertenecen igualmente al mismo carácter absolutamente perfecto y glorioso.

Sin el conocimiento de Dios por parte de quienes adoran, sin una fe activa, sin reverencia, sin gratitud en el adorador, incluso las mejores formas de adoración simplemente caen por su propio peso.

That is why we must come back to our first principles. And the most basic of these is the fact that God is there and that he is objective to us. He is not there to conform to us; we must conform to him. He summons us from outside of ourselves to know him. We do not go inside of ourselves to find him. We are summoned to know him only on his terms. He is not known on our terms. This summons is heard in and through his Word. It is not heard through our intuitions.

En este contexto, nos encontramos con la gracia de Dios en conexión con el evangelio, y esa verdad del evangelio se aprehende solo por fe. Y esta entrada en la redención está acompañada por una vida de fe, de andar diario con Dios, recibiendo la verdad de su Palabra, creyéndola y actuando en base a ella. Es así como mostramos nuestro amor por él.

Those who begin below, as so many do today, assume that God's love is whispered first in their inner senses, that it is part of their nature, that it is part of creation. And they assume that it becomes real to them when they experience its therapeutic benefits.

God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about.

I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I.

So tonight to shush you how about if I say I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo.

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship--be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles--is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

That God might regard the issue of whether you believe there's a God or not as fairly low on his/her/its list of things s/he/it's interested in re you.