God Quotes
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The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.
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God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.
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We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
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We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.
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The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.
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God is good whether or not His choices seem right to us, whether or not we feel it, whether or not it seems true, and whether or not He gives us everything that we want.
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People say, "How can God let that happen? How can God remain silent about all the wicked things that happen on earth, about all the terrible crimes that are committed?" And here again self-righteousness makes us blind and deaf. We no longer perceive how God speaks in judgment through wars and all the other troubles in the world. Yes, He is speaking powerfully. Such judgments are His last attempt to win us back in love.
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For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.
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You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.
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But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.
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I find that God by any name can be reduced to this sense of the eternal Presence. It defines being, and I see it as a sphere of intense light that marks the point of my origin. It is the permanent part of me, of which I am very aware, and the point to which I will return at the conclusion of this life.
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Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.
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What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.
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But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel , when by the hand of God, every man was stricken for his rebellion, with an oblivion of his former language.
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When you trust yourself, then you trust God.
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Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.
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I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.
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People who think they have the full support of God, any god, think they're invincible. They will do anything and not even think twice about it.
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You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory.
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It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.
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I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.
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It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
