God Quotes - Page 17

• Hidden behind man is God. Just give him a little way, a little passage, to come through you. That is creativity.
  Allowing God to happen is creativity. Creativity is a religious state.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Creativity, Men

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• God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Grief, Heart, Tears

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• Not a step can we take in any direction without perceiving the most extraordinary traces of design; and the skill everywhere conspicuous is calculated in so vast a proportion of instances to promote the happiness of living creatures, and especially of ourselves, that we feel no hesitation in concluding that, if we knew the whole scheme of Providence, every part would appear to be in harmony with a plan of absolute benevolence.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Skills, Design, Steps

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 261), 1895.

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• God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Morning, Eye, Air

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• God is the explanation of all things.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Explanation, All Things

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• Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

  Margaret of Valois

  Science, Steps, Creation

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• On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Signatures, Half, Corruption

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• I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  My Own, Knows, Seeing

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• We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Father, Soul, Sublime

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 270), 1895.

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• There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Unique, Essence, Perfection

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• I have a thousand brilliant lies
  For the question:
  How are you?
  
  I have a thousand brilliant lies
  For the question:
  What is God?
  
  If you think that the Truth can be known
  From words,
  
  If you think that the Sun and the Ocean
  Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,
  
  O someone should start laughing!
  Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!

  Hafez

  Truth, Lying, Ocean

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• For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Reality, Years, Thirty

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• Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Doe, World, Matter

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• The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Believer, Traditional, Universe

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• The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Consciousness, Unconsciousness

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.348

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• Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

  Francois Fenelon

  Children, Parent, Watches

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• So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

  Angela of Foligno

  Angel, Joy, Saint

  Angela (of Foligno) (1909). “The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno”

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• Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.

  Angela of Foligno

  Knowing, Perfection, Knowing God

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• What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?

  Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

  Men, Self, Sublime

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• The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moss, Doctrine, Cobwebs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.289, Library of America

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• The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Dream, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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• As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sun, Pool, Creatures

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.342

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• Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brother, Believe, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Penguin

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• There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Ends, Inexplicable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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• The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Men, Soul

  Address in Divinity College, Cambridge, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.

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