Quotes About God

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

People often ask: Where was God in the Holocaust? It is the wrong question. The real question: Where was man?

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

Listen. Allow me to be your god. Let me take you on a journey beyond imagining. Let me tell you a story.

She also taught me how to pray, another discipline I didn't keep up with. In the beginning I was too busy, what with housework, cooking, and educating myself. I had little time for a god who had little time for me. As I matured, I had no use for one. Emmanuel Lévinas suggested that God left in 1941. Mine left in 1975. And in 1978, and in 1982, and in 1990.

If I tell the truth—and I should, shouldn't I?—I translate books with my invented system because it makes time flow more gently. That's the primary reason, I think. As Camus said in The Fall: "Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

You never believed in God, Doc, did you? You said if God created man in His image, why couldn't man invent a God that was more anthropomorphic, less gratuitously remote, who, like his enemy, Satan, resembled us?

God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realisation of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing.

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

I have only one prayer to offer to God, and it is that when I have been driven out of every society He will give me shelter at His own feet.

truth and falsehood mingle in life—and to what God builds, man adds his own decoration.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him

What divine drink wouldst thou have, my God, from this overflowing cup of my life? My poet, is it thy delight to see thy creation through my eyes and to stand at the portals of my ears silently to listen to thine own eternal harmony? Thy world is weaving words in my mind and thy joy is adding music to them. Thou givest thyself to me in love and then feelest thine own entire sweetness in me.

Obviously God made man to be human; but this modern product has such marvellous square-cut finish

Even though from childhood I had been taught that idolatry of the Nation is almost better than reverence for God and humanity, I believe I have outgrown that teaching, and it is my conviction that my countrymen will truly gain their India by fighting against the education which teaches them that a country is greater than the ideals of humanity.

For the worthy there are many rewards on God's earth, but God has specially reserved love for the unworthy.

YOUR idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Like God, my father expressed himself through absence: it was easier, perhaps, to be grateful to someone who wasn't there.