God Quotes - Page 18

• Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Veils, Dare, Mediators

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Believe, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2905, Delphi Classics

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• Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Events, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1369, Delphi Classics

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• The more I know of astronomy, the more I believe in God.

  Heber Doust Curtis

  Believe, Astronomy, Knows

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• The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

  Maude Royden

  Law, Religion, Way

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• We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.

  A. N. Wilson

  Dad, Mean, Wish

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• The impotence of God is infinite.

  Anatole France

  Religious, Infinite, Impotence

  Anatole France (1927). “The Works of Anatole France in English”

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• A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Hypocrite, Jealous

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.428, Library of Alexandria

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• The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

  Denis Diderot

  Religious, Men, Firsts

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• People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.

  Rafael Yglesias

  Religious, Believe, People

  Fearless ch. 17 (1993)

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• That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Religious, Hands, Should Have

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

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• What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!

  Marquis de Sade

  Religious, Men, Forever

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• It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Men, Impossible

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.902, Library of Alexandria

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• The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his faith, are indications, if not of positive malevolence, at least of a suspicious and ruthless insecurity, which is characteristic more of a tyrant than of a wholly powerful and benevolent deity.

  A.J. Ayer

  Religious, Jobs, Powerful

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• View life as a learning opportunity. Ask God what He wants you to learn from the situations you face. . . . When we set aside specific time to listen, He often encourages us with His presence and promises, and interprets to some degree the circumstances of life. Take advantage of the natural lull after hard times when you're pulling together the pieces to sort through the events and ferret out the lessons.

  Jean Fleming

  Hard Times, Opportunity, Views

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• God alone is immortal, imperishable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Immortal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.79, Rajpal & Sons

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• God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Vision, Spheres, Action

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Raghavan Iyer (1987). “The moral and political writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violent resistance and social transformation”

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• God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Needs, Revision

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spirit, Force, Humans

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.13, North Atlantic Books

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• God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Majority, Mankind, Unfathomable

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.5, North Atlantic Books

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• God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Light, Darkness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• God is not outside this earthly case of ours.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cases

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.54, A&C Black

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• God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pebbles, Worship, Objects

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Earth, Creation, Form

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Eternal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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