Quotes About God

God who, in his simple substance, is all everywhere equally, nevertheless, in efficacy, is in rational creatures in another way than in irrational, and in good rational creatures in another way than in the bad. He is in irrational creatures in such a way as not to be comprehended by them; by all rational ones, however, he can be comprehended through knowledge; but only by the good is he to be comprehended also through love.

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.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world

That art thou': 'Behold but One in all things' -God within and God without. There is a way to Reality in and through the soul, and there is a way to Reality in and through the world. Whether the ultimate goal can be reached by following either of these ways to the exclusion of the other is to be doubted. The third, best and hardest way is that which leads to the divine Ground simultaneously in the perceiver and in that which is perceived.

Then you think there is no God?" "No, I think there quite probably is one." "Then why? …" Mustapha Mond checked him. "But he manifests himself in different ways to different men. In premodern times he manifested himself as the being that's described in these books. Now …" "How does he manifest himself now?" asked the Savage. "Well, he manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren't there at all.

Ja nie chcÄ™ wygody. Ja chcÄ™ Boga, poezji, prawdziwego niebezpieczeÅ"stwa, wolnoÅ›ci, cnoty. ChcÄ™ grzechu. - Inaczej mówiÄ…c - stwierdziÅ' Mustafa Mond - domaga siÄ™ pan prawa do bycia nieszcz??liwym. - No wiÄ™c dobrze - rzekÅ' Dzikus wyzywajÄ…cym tonem - domagam siÄ™ prawa do bycia nieszcz??liwym.

To think of God as mere Power, and not also, at the same time as Power, Love and Wisdom, comes quite naturally to the ordinary, unregenerate human mind. Only the totally selfless are in a position to know experimentally that, in spite of everything, 'all will be well' and, in some way, already is well.

A War Memorial was, in its very nature, a work dedicated to God. It was a token of thankfulness that the first stage in the culminating world–war had been crowned by the triumph of righteousness; it was at the same time a visibly embodied supplication that God might not long delay the Advent which alone could bring the final peace.

I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

Amma mÉ™n rahatl?q istÉ™mirÉ™m. MÉ™n Tanr? istÉ™yirÉ™m, poeziya istÉ™yirÉ™m, hÉ™qiqÉ™t istÉ™yirÉ™m, azadl?q istÉ™yirÉ™m, yax??l?q istÉ™yirÉ™m. MÉ™n günah istÉ™yirÉ™m.

Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.

It may interest you that, a day or so ago, attempting to discuss your ideas with regard to sex and religion , my eccentric friend, fixing his eyes rather fiercely upon me, growled abruptly: Semen is God. Unwilling to excite him further, I replied: Sir, though I understand perfectly what you mean by Semen, I am unacquainted with the connotation which you attach to the term God.

The keystone… some have called God, some Brahma, some Zeus… some even IAO… but in truth, O seeker, it is Thy-SELF.

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God." -Review of Ida Craddock's "Heavenly Bridegrooms

Sí, que me ha dicho, mas ya sabéis que el hombre propone y Dios dispone, verba volant scripta manent.

El Dios de los blancos ordena el crimen. Nuestros dioses nos piden venganza.

I am endlessly grateful to you for the mere fact of your existence. I tested myself – this is not an illness, not an obsessive idea – this is love, with which God rewarded me for some reason.

Suonavamo perché l'Oceano è grande, e fa paura, suonavamo perché la gente non sentisse passare il tempo, e si dimenticasse dov'era, e chi era. Suonavamo per farli ballare, perché se balli non puoi morire, e ti senti Dio. E suonavamo il ragtime, perché è la musica su cui Dio balla, quando nessuno lo vede. Su cui Dio ballava, se solo era negro.

Edel, ¿hay algún modo de conseguir hombres que no hagan daño? Eso debe de habérselo preguntado Dios también, en su momento.

Suonavamo per farli ballare, perché se balli non puoi morire, e ti senti Dio. E suonavamo il ragtime, perché è la musica su cui Dio balla, quando nessuno lo vede.

Pablito, the Bible was meant to be a bridge, not a wedge. It's the greatest love story ever told, about God's enduring and unconditional love for his creation--love beyond all reason. To understand it, you have to read it with love as the standard. Love God. Love your neighbor. Love yourself. Always remember that.

How is love between two people a sin? Love isn't about gender; it's about two souls uniting. But okay, let's just suppose it is a sin. Then isn't that between God and the people involved? Who are you to judge? [...] Time and again, Jesus' message was, 'How can you say, Let me take the speck out of your eye, when there is a log in your own?

Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that's half the battle.

I've put myself in the place of Providence to reward the good ones... and now let the god of vengeance grant me it's place to punish the wicked!

God wants us to understand Him and to think about His power. That's why He has given us a free will.