Quotes About God

A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.

Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects; we too could learn how to know the world and reshape our environment to meet our own needs.

The reason why Jesus got into such severe trouble was that he tried to bring into the present a construction of the world, of God and of the self that belonged to a still-remote future. He was much too far ahead of his time, and suffered accordingly.

For it was only via the idea of God that we were able to develop all our ideas about a unified self, reason, a unified law-governed cosmos, sovereignty, property, supervision (Providence) and management, long-term purposes and action to attain them and so on. God taught us everything, so that we are eternally grateful to God even as we now leave him behind.

All life is dying life – including the life of God.

The mystic attempts to overcome dogma, insisting that God, Christ and heaven are not 'up there' but are to be found in the heart by desire, by love, by the will; that is, by a path of inner purification.

36 Persuádase pues certísimamente toda la casa de Israel, que Dios ha constituido Señor y Cristo a este mismo Jesús, al cual ustedes han crucificado. 37

70 Dijeron entonces todos: ¿Luego tú eres el Hijo de Dios? Les respondió él: Así es, que yo soy como ustedes dicen. 71 Y replicaron ellos: ¿Qué necesitamos ya buscar otros testigos, cuando nosotros mismos lo hemos oído de su propia boca? 23

46 Entonces María dijo: Mi alma glorifica al Señor; 47 y mi espíritu está trasportado de gozo en el Dios salvador mío. 48

Del Señor nos viene la salvación; y tú, oh Dios mío, bendecirás a tu pueblo. Salmo

De quién es la imagen, e inscripción que tiene? Le responden: De César. 25 Les dijo entonces: Paguen pues a César lo que es de César; y a Dios lo que es de Dios.

I knew it. You're a romantic. God, I'm going to have to look after you, Eric, make a special project of you the next four years, because if you take that shit out into the world, that kind of fucking idealism, you'll get slaughtered. You'll get creamed. It'll be the death of you.

God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

wasn't conscious of anything I'd left behind and felt no regrets about leaving family or possessions. It was as if God had removed anything negative or worrisome from my consciousness, and I could only rejoice at being together with these wonderful people.

The Greek word for "spirit" is pneuma. The word can also mean "wind" or "breath." That Greek word is the root for what we call pneumonia. Just as it was necessary to reinflate my lungs to overcome pneumonia, I needed the breath of God to help me overcome the depression of my spirit.

Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us. Meese encouraged me by reminding me of the

He is your God, the one who is worthy of your praise, the one who has done mighty miracles that you yourself have seen.

That's perhaps the biggest miracle: People prayed and God honored their prayers. As

Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us. Meese encouraged me by reminding me of the real reason we have for fully living this life. It's to give everything we have to God--even the heartbreaks and pain. God is our reason to live.

My feeling has been that once we're actually in God's presence, we will never return to earth again, because it will be empty and meaningless by comparison

When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us.

I refer to them as miracles-although some may call them fortunate circumstances-because I believe there are no accidents or surprises with God.

As long as I'm here on earth, God still has a purpose for me.

To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.