Quotes About God

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.

As we study the Word of God rightly divided we are to understand that God has arranged His dealings with mankind into two programs. We have His prophesied purpose and His secret purpose. Prophecy has to do with the earth and Christ's reign upon it during the millennial kingdom, while the Mystery concerns our exaltation with Christ in the heavenlies.

As a consequence of Wittgenstein's philosophy, the questions once asked by philosophy have now passed into the realms of poetry. The way poetry is going, it looks as if they won't be asked much longer here either. We have learned to do without God, and it looks as if we will learn to do without philosophy. It will now, alas, join the ranks of subjects which are completed (and have become completely spurious), such as alchemy, astrology, platonic love, and stylitism.

In its early years, Islam encouraged philosophical and scientific speculation: to know how the world worked was to know the mind of God.

You have no news at all About love's folk, how they have fared, Or anything at all that God has made. Not just events in foreign lands Remain mysterious to you, You don't know a thing—and hear Nothing else besides—about the folks Who dwell outside your very doors.

Worship is a spiritual weapon. When we worship God, we enter into His presence in a powerful way. Because demons tremble at His presence, they are reluctant to follow us there.

God gives the Devil power against us in two modes: either for punishment when we sin, or for glory when we are tested.

16Be free, yet without using freedom as a pretext for evil, but as slaves of God. 17Give honor to all, love the community, fear God, honor the king.

command you: be strong and steadfast! Do not fear nor be dismayed, for the LORD, your God, is with you wherever you go.

10When you give, give generously and not with a stingy heart; for that, the LORD, your God, will bless you in all your works and undertakings.

The morning sun brings tender joy With happiness awakes the earth; The dew kissed flowers it's light employ Their petals open in new birth. The birds awake and all mankind Rejoices with songs they sing. God's creatures open heart and mind To Him their praises bring. Should not we, too, give thanks anew Greet joyfully each new born sun; Wash old sins clean with morning dew Give Praise to Him, The Holy One.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

He who participates in God participates in eternity.

For encountering God means encountering transcendent security and transcendent eternity.

Providence," he argues, "is not a theory about some activities of God; it is the religious symbol of the courage of confidence with respect to fate and death.

Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.

This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.

Ordinary theism has made God a heavenly, completely perfect person who resides above the world and mankind. The protest of atheism against such a highest person is correct. There is no evidence for his existence, nor is he a matter of ultimate concern. God is not God without universal participation. "Personal God" is a confusing symbol.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. (190)

Le courage d'être s'enracine dans le Dieu qui apparaît quand Dieu a disparu dans l'angoisse du doute.

There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.