Quotes About God

Only in service to others, or God, could one be truly happy, unless that service was undertaken with a desire for status, power or wealth, and then the void would swallow you whole.

The water of the Spirit, which flows from the Throne of God that has been created in us, is for other people to drink. The Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come!

In the sanctuary of Aesculapius, its site now occupied by the church of San Bartolomeo, opposite a hospital that is still faithful to the medical tradition of the island, people would come to sleep in order to receive the god's instructions in their dreams - a typically Greek procedure.

Aesculapius, the god of health, whose favour was just as opportune on the first day of January.

Terminus was also another aspect of Jupiter, who had had to agree to cohabit with the god of boundaries in a temple whose roof had a hole in it, as sacrifices could be made to him only in the open air (Serv., Aen., 9, 446), which was true for the majority of public cults.

He remembered the often-unsung words: Day is done. Gone the sun From the lake From the hill From the sky. Rest in peace Soldier brave God is nigh. . . .

Then, as I fell, I heard Tessie's soft cry and her spirit fled: and even while falling I longed to follow her, for I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now.

I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth...

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God!

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.

Since the biblical God can truly be identified by narrative, his hypostatic being, his self-identity, is constituted in dramatic coherence. The classic definition of this sort of coherence is provided by Aristotle, who noticed that a good story is one in which events occur "unexpectedly but on account of each other" [Poetics 1452a3], so that before each decisive event we cannot predict it, but afterwards see it was just what had to happen.

Any pattern of thought that in any way abstracts God 'himself' from this person [Jesus], from his death or his career or his birth or his family or his Jewishness or his maleness or his teaching or the particular intercession and rule he as risen now exercises, has, according to Nicaea, no place in the church.

God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt.

The doctrine of the Trinity is the Christian church's answer to the question, How does truth hang together? And how may it be grasped as one?

The doctrine of Trinity is simply the insistence, against all objections from otherwise founded intuitions of deity, that God in himself is not other than he is in his history with us.

Children with harsh fathers accept much of what is thrown their way as normal because they don't have a frame of reference for anything else, and this twisted template unfortunately becomes the basis for their picture of the heavenly Father.

Jesus taught that the secret life we have with God is one of the true tests of the genuineness of our relationship with him.

Ramana says: "Love is not different from the Self…[in this sense] God is love…. Love itself is the actual form of God…. Call it pure bliss, God, or what you will.

To know myself as woman in the image of God to know God as Mother and to know my own mother as a window into God: these three are inseparable.If one is implausible to the heart the other two are as well.

A soldier asked Abba Mius if God accepted repentance. After the old man had taught him many things he said, "Tell me my dear [friend], if your cloak is torn, do you throw it away?" He replied, "No, I mend it and use it again." The old man said to him, "If you are so careful about your cloak, will not God be equally careful of his creatures?" (Apoth., Mius 3, p. 150)

Sobre esta tierra quién tendrá piedad de nosotros. Míseros, no tenemos un Dios ante quien postrarnos y toda nuestra pobre vida llora.

Amor, piedad, gratitud a la vida, a los libros y al mundo me galvanizaban el nervio azul del alma. No era yo, sino el dios que estaba dentro de mí, un dios hecho pedazos de montaña, de bosques, de cielo y de recuerdo.

Es lo que la gente bestia no comprende. Los han asesinado a los dioses. Pero día vendrá que bajo el sol correrán por los caminos gritando: «Lo queremos a Dios, lo necesitamos a Dios». ¡Qué bárbaros! Yo no me explico cómo lo han podido asesinar a Dios. Pero nosotros los resucitaremos... inventaremos unos dioses hermosos... supercivilizados... ¡y qué otra cosa será entonces la vida!

One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one's actions, and that includes one's words and silences, yes, one's silences, because silences rise to heaven too, and God hears them, and only God understands and judges them, so one must be very careful with one's silences.