Quotes About God

I longed to devote my life to something valuable with a fervor that would consume my being. Young people today probably think the same way. But in our time we were not left to ourselves as they are. All of us believed in some kind of god. We believed in a scholar or in scholarship itself; we believed that right actually exists. All that kind of thing has been swept away, and philosophy, religion and morality must be created anew, from the ground up.

We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow-bone.

People caught in a homeland-trap: to speak now in this weary language, a language that was torn from its sleep in the Bible: dazzled, it wobbles from mouth to mouth. In a language that once described miracles and God, to say car, bomb, God.

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.

In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil.

Alçak gönüllülük erdem, gurursa kusurdur. "Biz" tanr?dan, "Ben" ÅŸeytandan gelir.

Le pope avait un chien, et après Dieu le fils, Il l'aimait plus que tout.

The ancient god created the ancient man, i.e., the man capable of mistakes, ergo the ancient god himself made a mistake.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring—hence he erred himself.

We comes from God, I from the Devil.

If you want to give God a good laugh, tell Him your plans.

God gave burdens, also shoulders.

True poverty does not come from God.

She not weird, gross, or crazy; just uniquely special in the eyes of God, the Almighty Lord and Creator of the Universe."

Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?

The most difficult thing on the earth one can practice is to be humble. It is not easy; it is difficult, because you have to surmount the existence of whole maya and to recognize that God is by your side. Then you feel the humility. G

How many times do you keep yourself from God-consciousness when you try to pretend you are great and holy and you try to shield that negative part of you? In my consciousness there is a support and in the support there is an equal negative and an equal positive. There are always two balances in each personality which balances the very rhythm of life. L

If the relationship between man and God were supposed to consist of man's acceptance of a paragraph of propositions that "raises among ourselves no other questions," there would be no sense at all in God's promising that if man inquires and seeks, he will be told "great things" that had until now been hidden.

Suffice it to say that the God of Israel loves those who disobey for the sake of what is right, and is capable of being pleased when a man has used his freedom to wrestle with him and to prevail, so long as the path on behalf of which he struggles ultimately proves to be the right one in God's eyes.

It is the biblical stories of dissent and disobedience, then, that give us the courage to wrestle with man and with God where we must.149 Such a posture is the only guarantee that the Mosaic law itself, whose interpretation is in the hands of men, will continue to serve as an expression of justice and of God's will.

And so, dear neighbor, I end these letters as I began: with the prayer that we will meet. Now we have spent some time together in spirit, but I hope to host you one day in my home—in my sukkah. B'ezrat Hashem. With God's help. Inshallah.

In the name of Israel's God, if every man would do right, and when he has done what he knows is right, then stops till he knows what next, there never would be a jar in the camp. And I defy the man to come forward that ever led so large a people in such difficult and trying circumstances, in so much peace, as I have led this people during this campaign, with the help of God and my brethren.