God Quotes - Page 14

• One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

  Aristotle

  Done, Can Do, One Thing

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.184

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• It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Men, Names

  1849 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,'Sunday'.

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Believe, Thinking, Terrible

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• In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Needs, Asceticism

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Angel, Men, Garden

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• The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

  Sigmund Freud

  Father, Special, Atheism

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.171, Routledge

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• Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mom, Thinking, Ivy

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• We are on the planet to... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us.

  Michael Beckwith

  Treasure, Spirituality, Consciousness

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• God can only do for you what He can do through you.

  Eric Butterworth

  Can Do

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• God does not dispense strength and encouragement like a druggist fills your prescription. The Lord doesn't promise to give us something to take so we can handle our weary moments. He promises us Himself. That is all. And that is enough.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Encouragement, Giving, Promise

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “Encourage Me”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Humble, Should Have

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.676

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• Behold God beholding you...and smiling.

  Anthony de Mello

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• When I count other people's blessings I lose sight of mine.

  Andy Stanley

  Christian, Religious, Blessing

  Twitter post from Jul 09, 2014

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• God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Spring, Love Is

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• We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Humble, House, Desire

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• Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Spring, Men, Sea

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1927). “The Hindú View of Life: Upton Lectures Delivered at Manchester College, Oxford, 1926”

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• I've had people say to me, 'Look at the sky, the fields, the ocean, the beautiful sunset. Isn't that proof positive of God?' Following that line of thought, look at the magnificent rainbows after a big rainstorm. Isn't that proof positive that God is gay?

  Ray Romano

  Beautiful, Ocean, Sunset

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• When God wounds from on high he will follow with the remedy.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Remedy, Wounds

  "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.

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• God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

  Joseph Stowell

  Tragedy, Way, Triumph

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• They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Believe, Soul, Prejudice

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• I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Capacity, My Soul

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Self, Names

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• Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

  Rajneesh

  Way

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• God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

  M. Scott Peck

  Goal, Growing, Want

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Believe, Unlimited Love, Justice

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