Quotes About God

The hallowed Hodegetria has failed; the Mother of God has forsaken them; the beast of the apocalypse rises from the sea. The Antichrist scratches at the gate. Time is a circle, Licinius used to say, and every circle eventually must close.

he wonders at the mystery of how one god can manage the thoughts and terrors of so many.

Hatred, Omeir sees, is contagious, spreading through the ranks like a disease. Already, three weeks into the siege, some of the men fight no longer for God or the sultan or plunder but out of a fearful rage. Kill them all. Get this over with. Sometimes the anger flares inside Omeir too, and he wants nothing more than for God to plunge a fiery fist through the sky, and start crushing buildings one after the next until all the Greeks are dead, and he can go home.

Right three degrees, repeat range. Calm, weary voices directing fire. The same sort of voice God uses, perhaps, when He calls souls to Him. This way, please.

I heard that the diamond is like a piece of light from the original world. Before it fell. A piece of light rained to earth from God.

God's truth? How long do these intolerable moments last for God? A trillionth of a second? The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness. That's God's truth.

He thinks of the Christians sitting up on the walls, and the people praying inside the houses and churches of the city, and he wonders at the mystery of how one god can manage the thoughts and terrors of so many.

Dar Dumnezeu e doar un ochi alb si rece, un sfert de luna atarnand deasupra fumului, clipind într-una, in timp ce oraÈ™ul e facut praf si pulbere.

The bereaved must understand that should they cross paths with a vukodlak, this shell is not their beloved. Only the flesh has been reanimated; the soul, it is presumed, is safe with God.

And then I feel the Big Sadness coming on, like there's a shiny and sharp axe blade buried inside my chest. The only way I can stay alive is to remain absolutely motionless so instead of whispering Dear God how could you do this to me, I only whisper Amen

When the voice of medicine can't give you the answers you need and you recognize that the cause of your trouble is spiritual, it's imperative that you learn how to trust in the God that is bigger than your storm. When the only way out, is through, you need to know deep within your heart and soul, that no matter what you go through, the friends of God suffer no permanent harm.

The Resurrection opens up access to His presence. In the presence of God is peace. So if God has entered your soul, then peace can walk into your situations. In this you'll find a rest that can sustain you in any storm of life. No matter how hard the winds blow or waves come crashing in, His peace will prevail evidently and eventually through you.

Children are often called our greatest resource, as if they were deposits of tin. But a child is not (just as an adult is not) a lever in an economic machine, a vehicle for commerce, a revenue source for the all-powerful state. He is a human being, made in the image and likeness of God— made, that is, for goodness and truth and beauty.

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

How decisive for the Christian educator, or for any educator of good will, is the revelation that man is made in the image and likeness of the three-Personed God? That is like asking what difference it will make to us if we keep in mind that a human being is made not for the processing of data, but for wisdom; not for the utilitarian satisfaction of appetite, but for love; not for the domination of nature, but for participation in it; not for the autonomy of an isolated self, but for communion.

The lie rushes in to fill up the void left by the truth in retreat. When people lose their faith in God, for example, they do not believe in nothing. It is as Chesterton said, they will believe in anything, usually the nearest and biggest thing, the gross power of the state to solve their problems.

Caesarion was the murdered god's real, not adoptive, offspring;

Either the future is subject to chance—in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other—or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.

Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it." --Quintus Tullius Cicero

I now believe there is a God...I now think it [the evidence] does point to a creative Intelligence almost entirely because of the DNA investigations. What I think the DNA material has done is that it has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements to work together.

Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the 'other God that failed' alongside Communism and radical socialism.4

The difficulty of reconciling the existence of evil with God's alleged omnipotence and mercy has, it can plausibly be argued, defeated every orthodox theologian in the history of monotheism.

there is, he reasoned, no such thing as evil or suffering from God's point of view, and this explains why God never tries to do anything about it.

As to the … teaching of certain Churches, that God took upon Himself human nature … they seem to me to speak no less absurdly than one who might tell me that a circle has taken on the nature of a square.