Quotes About God

The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.

The particular creature we love is never God's rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.

Authentic atheism is a blank page; Gnostic atheism hides a text written in invisible ink. The Ãœbermensch is the recourse of a nonconformist atheism. Nietzsche invents a human consolation for the death of God; Gnostic atheism, on the other hand, proclaims the divinity of man.

El máximo error moderno no es anunciar que Dios murió, sino creer que el diablo ha muerto.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul. What draws us away from God is not sensuality but abstraction.

Our last hope lies in the injustice of God.

God ends up being a parasite in souls where ethics predominates. The religious life begins when we discover that God is not a postulate of ethics, but the only adventure in which it is worth the trouble to risk ourselves.

Between man and nothingness passes the shadow of God.

The philosophy of Schopenhauer does not necessarily exclude God. It just does not include Him. God would be the goal of the will therein and the only nourishment that would satisfy it.

The passivity of things deceives us: we manipulate nothing with impudence without hurting a god.

Whoever dares to ask that the moment stop and time suspend its flight surrenders himself to God; whoever celebrates future harmonies sells himself to the devil.

Gnosticism and Christianity start from the same point, but go in different directions. From the same definition of the human condition, Christianity infers that man is a creature, while the Gnostic infers he is a god.

Modernity ingeniously finds a way not to present its theology directly, but rather through profane notions that imply it. It avoids announcing to man his divinity, but proposes goals that only a god could reach, or rather proclaims that the essence of man has rights which assume he is divine.

The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.

Therefore I say unto you, after God, to woman must belong your best thoughts, for she is the divine temple where you will most easily obtain perfect happiness.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

The lack of goodness in the young gun's heart was oxygen to the fire, and so he burned for a good long while before I woke. The dream stoked my faith in the judgment and justice that will come someday or this afternoon soon. I turn up the collar of my white robe, relieved to know that God's got me covered 'cause I'm good, but not that good.

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.