Quotes About God

Let those to whom God gives the gift of abstinence know that they shall receive their proper reward

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing that you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically

excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

desconfiaba de su tendencia a creer que Dios se ocuparía de aquello que él no era capaz de solucionar.

We call him Jonathan, which means a gift from God.

recuerda por favor que el orgullo excesivo es un pecado corriente, pero que un hombre puede, con la misma facilidad, frustrar la voluntad de Dios por una excesiva humildad.

No sentía simpatía por los profesionales de Dios

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing.

When people came here they were supposed to be awestruck by the majesty of Almighty God. But peasants were simple people who judged by appearances, and coming here they would think that God was a careless, indifferent deity unlikely to appreciate their worship or take note of their sins. In the end the peasants paid for the church with the sweat of their brows, and it was outrageous that they were rewarded with this crumbling mausoleum

Cider from Saint-Martin is stronger than most, by the grace of God and good husbandry.

In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum.

L'eccesso di orgoglio è un peccato molto diffuso, ma un uomo può frustrare altrettanto facilmente il volere di Dio per eccesso di umiltà.

We cannot hope to understand the world—all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation.

If she had believed in God, she would have prayed.

pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum." In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Aldred felt he could spend his life trying to comprehend that mystery.

Não sabia explicar o motivo por que, com tanta frequência, Deus levava as melhores pessoas e deixava as más vivas para continuarem a praticar o mal. Em momentos como aquele, a ideia de uma divindade benevolente encarregada de zelar pelo bem de todos perdia qualquer espécie de credibilidade.

In Paris the citizens had slaughtered defenseless women and children in the thousands. How could God permit it? And then, to make it worse, the Pope had sent a letter of congratulation to the king of France. That could not be God's will. Hard though it was to believe, the Pope had done wrong.

Little of God, then a little of ghosts, is that it, bub?" as though our unfortunate argument were forgotten. "Well . . . keep a tight hold on it.

El dios, o la diosa, del capitalismo, del marxismo, del industrialismo, de la ecología profunda, del consumismo o del ecofeminismo es el dios de lo que puede verse con los ojos, percibirse con los sentidos, registrarse con los sentimientos o venerarse con las sensaciones, un dios al que puede hincarse el diente y que se agota en las formas.

The mythic god is the god of a particular peoples—it is sociocentric and ethnocentric, not postconventional and worldcentric

Si ubicas a tu Dios en la física actual, ese Dios también se tambaleará cuando la física se tambalee. Y eso es precisamente lo que preocupa a estos físicos místicos: no quieren que la física se distorsione, ni que el misticismo se empobrezca con un matrimonio condenado de antemano al fracaso. Gracia y coraje, 27-31

This pure I AM state is not hard to achieve and impossible to escape.... You can never run from Spirit, because Spirit is the runner.... Why on earth do you keep looking for God when God is actually the looker?

In the United States, for example, almost 60 percent of the population today is "churched"—hence likely at a Mythic or lower level (correlatively, Robert Kegan, in In Over Our Heads, estimates that 3 out of 5 Americans, 60 percent, are at Mythic or lower)—whereas in northern Europe, only 11 percent are churched. But the leading edge, in any event, and the mainstream cultural background philosophy, is Rational/Pluralistic, and NO GOD is its credo.