Quotes About God

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.

God above," he said in a reverent whisper. "Is this how you looked at me when you were saving my life? When you got me out of my clothes and warmed me?" He shook his head, a naughty smile on his lips. "There was no funny business. This time, there's definitely going to be funny business." "Good,

When God made the firs Raika, that man turned to God and said, "You're something else. You've given me two eyes, two ears, two feet, two hands but only one stomach. It isn't fair. Why did you do it?" God laughed at him and answered, "You foolish Raika, don't you realize how much trouble you're going to have filling one?

Thinking about it like that made it more bearable, that we go back to God when we've had our turn, that some of us roll the dice less than we'd like, but that we're the ones who are rolling them.

Irenaeus, writing even earlier, puts it more beautifully still: "By the wood of the Cross the work of the Word of God was made manifest to all: his hands are stretched out to gather all men together. Two hands out-stretched, for there are two peoples scattered over the whole earth. One sole head in the midst, for there is but one God over all, among all, and in all." This is

Because we are finite creatures who live in time, we cannot see things clearly. Be careful in judging others because the truth of their character and their situation may be hidden from your eyes. Only God knows the whole truth and only God knows the future. Don't expect all the answers now, but be patient and trusting and seek to grow in love. Each act of love is one more step in the long journey to our true and only home, unity with God in eternity.

People long for God, and more of them than we might think are willing to accept the idea that getting close to him might be painful. The church needs to worry less about coddling our superficial tastes and impulses and more about giving us the whole truth.

Faithful Christians must work for social justice, but can only do so in the context of fidelity to the full Christian moral and theological vision through which we understand the meaning of justice. Any social justice campaign that implies that the God of the Bible is an enemy of man and his happiness is fraudulent and must be rejected.

We want God back in the public square, but for too many of us, religion is a pious veneer over our own unconscious worship of materialism. We want a faith that makes us feel good about ourselves, not one that makes demands we'd rather not obey. We've turned religion into another consumer good. Our faith does not help us stand against the money-driven materialist culture, but instead baptizes our participation in it.

if one's religion is to mean anything, if it is to last, it has to stand outside of time and place. Its truths have to be transcendent. And though we moderns have to find a way to make the tradition livable in our own situations, we must never forget that we don't judge the religion; the religion judges us. To be blunt, a god that is no bigger than our own desires is not God at all, but a divinized rationalization for self-worship.

If everyone, including himself, loved as they should love, they would love God more than they loved themselves and their passions.

Genesis tells us that from the very beginning, masculinity, femininity, and sex are created by God and bound to Creation.

Still, as I have said, accepting that God loved me was something I did only on the level of theory.

Solzhenitsyn emerged from the grinding misery of the gulag as a fearless man of God whose prophetic witness to the world helped bring down an evil empire.

The monk holds that meaning exists objectively, within the natural world created by God, and is there to be discovered by the person who has detached themselves from their own passions and who seeks to see as God sees.

A Christian who practices asceticism trains himself to say no to his desires and yes to God.

This is how we must approach our jobs: as opportunities to glorify God.

Nuestra situación es alarmante, es verdad, pero no nos podemos permitir el lujo de tirarnos de los pelos. Esta crisis esconde una bendición, solo tenemos que abrir bien los ojos. En el Antiguo Testamento, Dios se valía del castigo para pedir a su pueblo que volviera a Él, así que no es de extrañar que esté dando un toque de atención similar a una Iglesia y un pueblo cargados de egoísmo, hedonismo y materialismo que le han dado la espalda.

nominalismo. Lo que en su día fue una teoría radical, con el tiempo pasó a ser la base del modo en el que la mayoría de la gente entendía la relación entre Dios y la creación. Hizo posible el mundo moderno, pero, como veremos, también sembró el terreno para que el hombre derrocara a Dios y se sentara en su trono.

el mundo occidental vive como si Dios no existiera», dice. «Creo que es verdad. La fragmentación, el miedo, la desorientación y el ir dando tumbos caracterizan a buena parte de nuestra sociedad».

The genius of Saint Benedict is to find the presence of God in everyday life.