Quotes About God

Without faith in the existence, the revelation, and the knowability of God, no religion is possible.

whoever intentionally robs himself of self-consciousness, reason, and will, extinguishes the light which God has given to man, annihilates his human freedom and independence, and degrades himself to an instrument for an alien and unknown power.

The whole man is taken into fellowship with that one true God; not only his feelings, but also his mind and will, his heart and all his affections, his soul and his body.

From the start of its labors dogmatic theology is shrouded in mystery; it stands before God the incomprehensible One.

250Christianity is no mere revelation of God in the past, but it is, in connection with the past, a work in the midst of this and every time. All other religions try to obtain salvation by the works of men, but Christianity makes a strong protest against this; it is not autosoteric but heterosoteric; it does not preach self-redemption, but glories in redemption by Christ alone. Man does not save himself, and does not save God, but God alone saves man, the whole man, man for eternity.

Such a scientific defense of the dogma, i.e., of the entire content of revelation and of Christianity as a whole, is possible for the reason that nature and grace, creation and redemption, coming as they do from one and the same God, are not and cannot be in conflict.

The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless. [ From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist' ]

If 10% is good enough for God, 9% ought to be good enough for the federal government.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

According to Calvin the human voice exceeds all soulless instruments by far. While acknowledging that music is indeed apt to touch the human heart, his fear of contaminating the praise of God overrules this concession.[122] He fears that, by using musical instruments, the correct balance would be disturbed between the joy caused by music and the joy due to the praise of God.[123] It should quickly be added though that Calvin has no objections about playing on musical instruments at home.

In the same way that man is created for God's sake, the rest of the world is created for the sake of man.[20] Therefore Calvin can define the end of creation in relation to man: God has created men and put them in this world in order to be a Father for them.[21] All the riches with which the world abounds proclaim aloud what a beneficent Father God is to mankind.

Calvin has a great aversion to theological speculation because he is convinced that things will go wrong when theology exceeds the limits of our knowledge of God.

Finally, Calvin's exposition of the Psalter shows that predestination is not so much a distinction between merit and grace as one between man and God, human honor and God's honor.

Thou great democratic God!… who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne!

Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall!

God bless Captain Vere!

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.

With the smoke of the dead sailor's cigar wreathing around him, Willie passed to thinking about death and life and luck and God. Philosophers are at home with such thoughts, perhaps, but for other people it is actual torture when these concepts--not the words, the realities--break through the crust of daily occurrences and grip the soul. A half hour of such racking meditation can change the ways of a lifetime.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

It causes the world great indignation that the question of God and his revelation could be taken so seriously, as seriously as it was taken by the teachers and synods of the ancient church, and by Lutherans, Reformed, and Catholics in the century of the Reformation.

For whether the sun will rise again tomorrow, that I cannot know with certainty. But that God the Father, the almighty Creator of heaven and earth, is still there—that I surely know.

For whether the sun will rise again tomorrow, that I cannot know with certainty. But that God the Father, the almighty Creator of heaven and earth, is still there—that I surely know. That Jesus Christ is Lord, to whom all power has been given in heaven and on earth, that the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, moves over the chaos of this time as He did in the beginning over the dark depths—that I know.

God's Word witnesses to the fact that the Holy Spirit is very God, or to be more exact, God the Holy Spirit witnesses to Himself in the words of Scripture, and nowhere else.