Quotes About God

No man shall be the avenger of his own wrongs, especially by a deed alike interdicted by the laws of God and man.

Olay, suçlu olanlar?n aç??a ç?kar?lamamas? nedeniyle Allah'a, dosya ise halledilmiÅŸ say?larak arÅŸive havale edildi." (Herzen, Suçlu Kim?, Tutanak)

From the Chaldean Mysteries, extreme unction has obviously come. Among the many names of the Babylonian god was the name "Beel-samen," "Lord of Heaven," which is the name of the sun, but also of course of the sun-god.

Has not the Word of God, in the most energetic and awful terms, doomed the New Testament Babylon? And has it not equally declared, that those who share in Babylon's sins, shall share in Babylon's plagues? (Rev. xvii.4.)

The practice of such penance, then, on the part of those of the Pagans who cut and slashed themselves, was intended to propitiate and please their god, and so to lay up a stock of merit that might tell in their behalf in the scales of Anubis. In the Papacy, the penances are not only intended to answer the same end, but, to a large extent, they are identical.

Sebbene, come tutti a quei tempi, non credessero in Dio, erano però, come tutti, superstiziosi. Della fede si può dubitare quanto si vuole, ma della superstizione si è convinti.

Seek to cultivate a buoyant joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Sorrow and loss are meant to prepare us for the vision of God to purge the inward eye that it may see Him.

The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.

Self-confidence is not the temper which God uses for His instruments. He works with 'bruised reeds,' and breathes His strength into them. It is when a man says 'I can do nothing,' that he is fit for God to employ. 'When I am weak, then I am strong.' Moses

To-day is given us mainly that we may learn to know God better, and to love Him more, and to serve Him more joyfully.

He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding," and can wait God's time for the rest.

You have nothing to do but to receive the things that are freely given to you of God—the forgiveness, the cleansing, the life, that come from Christ by faith.

The Gospel is the savour of life unto life, or of death unto death. The same fire melts wax and hardens clay. The same Christ is salvation and destruction. God is to each of us either our joy or our dread. II.

God the Eternal Object. To find Him in everything, and everything in Him, is to be at rest.

our God is that which we think most precious, for which we are ready to make the greatest sacrifices, which draws our warmest love; which, lost, would leave us desolate; which, possessed, makes us blessed.

Worthiness or unworthiness is to be swept clean out of the field, and I am to be content to be a pauper, to owe everything to what I have done nothing to procure, and to cast myself on the sole, all-sufficient mercy of God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

If a man realises God's hold on him, he feels all others relaxed.

When the bonds which knit society to God are relaxed, selfishness soon becomes furious, and forcibly seizes what it lusts after, regardless of others' rights. Sin saps the very foundations of social life, and makes men into tigers, more destructive to each other than wild beasts. All our grand modern schemes for the reformation of society will fail unless they begin with the reformation of the individual. To walk with God is the true way to make men gentle and pitying.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod;An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,And catch the manners living as they rise:Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;But vindicate the ways of God to man.

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!