Quotes About God

By making man the master of his own destiny and the creator of his own desires, God makes man ultimately responsible for the life he leads and the choices he makes. God does not interfere with fate; he simply helps man cope with it.

One must bear in mind that the concept of God as a judge, which is part of Christian and Islamic mythology, is absent in Hindu mythology

The Pandavas won not because they were better warriors; they won because God wanted them to.

Without the cerebrum there would be no imagination, and hence no notion of God!

A Siddha must be differentiated from a Rishi. A Rishi obtains his power from the Devas by chanting the appropriate hymns and making the appropriate offerings during yagna. Siddhas bypass the Devas and go directly to God to get their powers.

God and Goddess. Purusha and Prakriti. Observer and observation. Subject and object. That's what it is. Not this, not that; this too, that too. That's who we are. Tat tvam asi.

God is not an external trophy to be possessed; God is internal human potential to be realized.

Though formless, the God of Abrahamic mythology is addressed, even visualized, in masculine terms. The God of Hindu mythology is visualized as sometimes male, sometimes female, sometimes both and sometimes neither. Thus,

Vishnu stories in the Ramayana, Bhagavata and Mahabharata reveal how he experiences birth, death and even heartbreak. Both Ram and Krishna display human emotions, yearning for the beloved. Though God, Ram cannot be with Sita, Krishna cannot be with Radha. Yet they do not turn bitter, angry or vengeful. They love unconditionally.

When the world tries to convince you of drought, trust in God's ability to care for you.

Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream...

I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men.

The whole message of the Christian scripture is based in the idea of metanoia, the change of heart that happens when we meet God face-to-face. Even a cursory knowledge of history reveals that Christianity is a religion about change. The Christian faith always changes--even when some of its adherents claim that it does not.

Irenaeus of Lyon (ca. 115–202): "The glory of God is the human person fully alive.

Thus Christianity becomes a story of accumulated human experience of God that reveals a certain kind of wisdom in the world: To love God and love one's neighbor constitutes the good life. Love is, as the apostle Paul wrote, the greatest of all things. Without love we are, as the good apostle said flatly, "nothing" (1 Cor. 13). Without love, Christianity is either a pretty bad joke or a twisted political agenda.

Christians struggled with Jesus's Great Command to love God (devotion) and love their neighbor (ethics).

The Abrahamic religions refer to God as Spirit, the holy wind animating life.

I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.

Beauty is in all beings that love and are loved, animals and children, and if older women have it, it is because they feel completely free in this world and in their lives as they feel close to God....and they are spiritually in tune with the universe." December 6 1968. Letter to Miss Anita Colby, 3 East 78th Street, New York

Religion seems to have twisted the idea of God into a way to control people.

I have known abject fear, I have experienced mind numbing danger, I have wept with my heart and soul as others made the ultimate sacrifice, I have ventured where most fear to tread, but not from courage and valour, but from faith and belief in what is right by God.

Your decision to open the Bible every day to look into the mirror and see truth from God makes you a light in a world filled with much darkness. —Catherine Martin

She looked at a microscope and saw a creator God. Chad looked at a microscope and saw man's scientific advances.