Quotes About God

He held out his right hand in the moonlight. From the cut on his wrist the blood was still oozing. Every few seconds a drop fell, dark, almost colourless in the dead light. Drop, drop, drop. To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow... He had discovered Time and Death and God.

Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began.

God's the reason for everything noble and fine and heroic.

Sólo podéis ser independientes de Dios mientras conservéis la juventud y la prosperidad; la independencia no os llevará a salvo hasta el final.

O my God, how does it happen in this poor old world that Thou art so great and yet nobody finds Thee, that Thou callest so loudly and nobody hears Thee, that Thou art so near and nobody feels Thee, that Thou givest Thyself to everybody and nobody knows Thy name? Men flee from Thee and say they cannot find Thee; they turn their backs and say they cannot see Thee; they stop their ears and say they cannot hear Thee. Hans Denk

Turning to God without turning from self' - the formula is absurdly simple; and yet, simple as it is, it explains all the follies and iniquities committed in the name of religion.

Ben keyif aram?yorum, Tanr?'y? istiyorum,ÅŸiir istiyorum,gerçek tehlike istiyorum,özgürlük istiyorum,iyilik istiyorum. Günah istiyorum. Asl?nda, dedi Mustafa Mond, siz mutsuz olma hakk?n? istiyorsunuz.

Why don't you give them these books about God? For the same reason as we don't give them Othello; they're old, they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now. But God doesn't change. Men do though.

Ich brauche keine Bequemlichkeiten. Ich will Gott, ich will Poesie, ich will wirkliche Gefahren und Freiheit und Tugend. ich will Sünde.<< >>Kurzum<<, sagte Mustafa Mannesmann, >>Sie fordern das Recht auf Unglück.<<

Yo no quiero comodidad. Yo quiero a Dios, quiero poesía, quiero peligro real, quiero libertad, quiero bondad, quiero pecado. —En suma —dijo Mustafá Mond—, usted reclama el derecho a ser desgraciado.

But I don't want comfort; I want god, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Totalitarian regimes justify their existence by means of philosophy and political monism, according to which the state is god on Earth, unification under the heel of a divine state is salvation, and all means to such unification, however intrinsically wicked, are right and may be used without scruple.

Pero yo no quiero la comodidad. Yo quiero a Dios, quiero la poesía, quero el verdadero riesgo, quiero la libertad, quiero la bondad. Quiero el pecado. -En resumen, (...), usted reclama el derecho a ser desgraciado.

God and God's will are one, I and my will are two." We have somehow to use our will to get rid of our will in order to collaborate with this totality of the universe, to accept events as they come in this impartial spirit, yet doing everything we can to promote the positive side of life.

All things, to all things perfectly indifferent, perfectly work together in discord for a Good beyond good, for a Being more timeless in transience, more eternal in its dwindling than God there in heaven.

God as a sense of warmth about the heart, God as exultation, God as tears in the eyes, God as a rush of power or thought—that was all right. But God as truth, God as 2 + 2 = 4—that wasn't so clearly all right.

Unitive knowledge of God is possible only to those who 'have ceased to cherish opinions' even opinions that are as true as it is possible for verbalized abstractions to be.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do though.

The doctrine that God is in the world has an important practical corollary the sacredness of Nature, and the sinfulness and folly of man's overweening efforts to be her master rather than her intelligently docile collaborator.

In other words, the highest form of the love of God is an immediate spiritual intuition, by which 'knower, known and knowledge are made one.

Ma io non ne voglio di comodità. Io voglio Dio, voglio la poesia, voglio il pericolo reale, voglio la libertà, voglio la bontà. Voglio il peccato.[...]Ebbene,sì. Io reclamo il diritto d'essere infelice.

The truth is, of course, that we are all organically related to God, to Nature and to our fellow-men. If every human being were constantly and consciously in a proper relationship with his divine, natural and social environments there would be only so much suffering as Creation makes inevitable.

they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now. But God doesn't change. Men do though. What difference does that make? All the difference in the world

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. — Aldous Huxley Brave New World (Harper Perennial Modern Classics 1998) Originally published 1932.