Famous Quotes about God (189 Quotations)

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Two men please God — who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

We can only know one thing about God — that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size.

When men make gods, there is no God!

When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.