What Is God Quotes
If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and not yet soiled by the knowledge that their nation does not love them.
I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.
Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.
Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.
I found once you start writing about God it's really fun. It's like a rock singer saying "baby." "Baby, baby, baaayy-by." You start saying "God" on the page and you don't want to stop.
After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.
God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".
In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created.
Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.
To climb ever closer to God is not to move away from our troubled and troubling neighbors, but closer to them.
I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him - or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.
God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.
The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.
You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.
The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.
We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.
The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.
God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.
God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.
Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.
And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?
There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
"A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are "touched by the hand of God." We are all touched by the hand of God."
The most supreme beauty is that of the feminine; the source of all creativity. Even in my greatest despair, that realization alone restores my faith in God.
Christ Not Begotten of Holy Ghost... Christ was begotten of God. He was not born without the aid of Man, and that Man was God!
God is an exalted man. Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith... that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man.
We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.
Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.