Quotes About God

Getting rid of these, too, requires looking to God for help, trusting him alone, and submitting to his direction. [47] Then if you're not willing to do this – all tears and agitation – you will serve someone physically more powerful than you, and continue to look outside yourself for happiness, fated never to find it. And that is because you look for it in the wrong place, forgetting to look where it really lies.

I'm in difficulty, lord, and pitiable: no one cares about me, no one helps me; I'm the object of universal scorn.' [49] Is that the witness you are going to bear, making a mockery of God's summons, when he honoured you and judged you worthy to be his public spokesman?

Desire to become pure, and, once pure, you will be at ease with yourself, and comfortable in the company of God.

Furthermore the true Cynic must know that he is sent as a Messenger from God to men, to show unto them that as touching good and evil they are in error; looking for these where they are not to be found, nor ever bethinking themselves where they are.

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good. CXXIII

You do not seem to realize that the mind is subject only to itself. It alone can control it, [13] which shows the force and justice of God's edict: the strong shall always prevail over the weak.

This World is one great City, and one if the substance whereof it is fashioned: a certain period indeed there needs must be, while these give place to those; some must perish for others to succeed; some move and some abide: yet all is full of friends--first God, then Men, whom Nature hath bound by ties of kindred each to each.

Make the best use of what is in our power, and treat the rest in accordance with its nature. And what is its nature? However God decides.

If the Divine is faithful, he also must be faithful; if free, he also must be free; if beneficent, he also must be beneficent; if magnanimous, he also must be magnanimous. Thus as an imitator of God must he follow Him in every deed and word.

Limbaji grinned widely and reached for a stone. "But this is what different religions mean," he said, placing the stone on the ground. "God is for all men, he is always the same. There is only one. And all men finally go to the same God." He drew lines toward the stone in the dust. "But there are different roads." From

Genocide is a word. Like the words "love" or "God," it seems to be comprehensible. But in fact it cannot be grasped, it cannot be taken in. It is the unspeakable made verbal.

Dumnezeu e zgarcit. -Sa zicem ca face economie. Ii cunoaste bine pe oameni, de vreme ce el i-a facut. Stie ca cei mai multi nu gandesc, ci se multumesc sa mearga cu turma. Din pricina ca nu cugeta, rumega si tot rumega. Turma e guvernata de instinctul gregar.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a God or not. The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion.

Chiquita was dancing with a brother who was so old I'd bet he used to baby-sit God.

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god's messenger.

The earth is God's book but in our blindness, we have obliterated letters so we may say God has abandoned us. It is we who are illiterate.

For what angry God arching backward over the world. his anus spitting fire, the fetid breath of his mouth propelling blood-colored clouds, his navel full of burnt pitch and singed feathers, have we given our eyes, our teeth, our eyeglasses, bales of our our hair, and the magic of our worthless gold?

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

She explains that in the evolution of religions, the god of the old religion always becomes the devil of the new.

Why is it so hard to be human being? I wonder. Why do we have to surrender? And to what? What if you refused to believe in a higher power? What if you thought you were the only trustworthy higher power? I have done that all my life and I know it doesn't work. You are not enough. Your will is not enough. But God? God is a pagan dream, conjured out of neediness.

Tot el m-a ajutat ÅŸi s? cred în tine. Sunt plin? de iubire, Doamne, parc? m? arde pe din?untru, mi-a d?ruit atâta, încât s?-mi ajung? pentru toÅ£ii anii de-acum încolo.

Dieu n'est présent en moi que sous la forme de sa question.

A po co mia?bym pisa? do Pana Boga? - Mo?e poczu?by? si? mniej samotny? - Mniej samotny z kim?, kto nie istnieje? - Spraw, ?eby istnia?. Pochyli?a si? w moj? stron?. - Za ka?dym razem, kiedy w niego uwierzysz, b?dzie troch? bardziej istnia?. Je?li si? uprzesz, zacznie istnie? na dobre. I wtedy ci pomo?e.

Nonna Rosa, perché il tuo Dio permette che ci siano persone come Peggy e me? E' una fortuna che sia così, Oscar, perché la vita sarebbe meno bella senza di voi.