Quotes About God

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

Indeed, it is amazing that a religion was founded on the experience of utter shame, of a god that dies the death of a condemned criminal.

in the Greek wording of the Nicene Creed ... we confess God to be literally the "poet of heaven and earth" (poieten ouranou kai ges).

the kingdom of God is so close and nearby that we might have overstepped it in our amusement in the playgrounds of promise.

Christ is everywhere, closer to everything created than these things are to themselves. God's embodiment through Christ encompasses the world.

Can God be so powerful as to surrender all power? And the answer was yes!

The cross] is a way of life that we live out. It is a practice that involves risk. It is a story that, if truly told, courts danger but moves also into hopeful solidarity, the solidarity of those who are moved by the pain of God in the midst of this world, or by the pain of the world in the midst of God.

We must primarily become seekers of God instead of founders of works, for work will not sustain us through the traumas of incarnation.

religion does not consist of doctrines or dogmas. It is not what you read nor what dogmas you believe that is of importance, but what you realize. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God," yea, in this life. And that is salvation

forms and ceremonials, though absolutely necessary for the progressive soul, have no other value than taking us on to that state in which we feel the most intense love to God.

Whenever I'm particularly frustrated by a problem in my life or in my garden, i meditate on the words of St. Paul in his letter to the Galations, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Each belt buckle that German soldiers wore had embossed upon it 'Got Mitt Uns' (God Is With Us). Over the door of the courthouse in the Palace of Justice complex in Nuremberg were engraved the Ten Commandments. The group that established those commandments was precisely the group that was deprived of citizenship, human rights, and even life, under the laws promulgated in the name of that very city—the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws of 1935.

Incluso la creencia en Dios, ya que de ella se trata, no es verdaderamente una creencia completa sino que implica un conjunto de representaciones relativas a lo que viene después de la vida; en consecuencia, a algo sobrenatural, a una escatología; y es por ello que una religión que no anunciara nada a los hombres en lo concerniente a una vida ulterior no sería una verdadera religión.

The person is the highest creation of God only because God gives it the possibility of love, therefore of refusal.

The love of God for man is so great that it cannot constrain; for there is no love without respect. Divine will always will submit itself to gropings, to detours, even to revolts of human will to bring it to a free consent: of such is divine providence, and the classical image of the pedagogue must seem feeble indeed to anyone who has felt God as a beggar of love waiting at the soul's door without ever daring to force it.

To forgive the terrorists is up to God, but to send them there is up to me.

To forgive the terrorists is up to god but to send them to him is up to me.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.