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Quotes About God

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
~ Ralph W. Sockman
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
So nigh is grandeur to our dust,So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, Thou must,The youth replies, I can.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hand that rounded Peter's dome,And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,Wrought in a sad sincerity;Himself from God he could not free;He builded better than he knew—The conscious stone to beauty grew.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the essence of God.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.
~ Ramakrishna
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
~ Ramakrishna
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
~ Ramakrishna
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
~ Ramakrishna
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
~ Ramakrishna
When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
~ Ramakrishna
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
~ Ramakrishna
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
~ Ramakrishna
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
~ Ramakrishna
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
~ Ramakrishna
Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
~ Ramakrishna
Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God's desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The Power that created you has created the world as well. If it can take care of you, it can similarily take care of the world also. If God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours.
~ Ramana Maharshi