God Quotes - Page 31

• Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?

  Sylvia Plath

  Remedy

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Winter Trees”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• God is the Soul of all souls - The Supreme Soul - The Supreme Consciousness.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Spiritual, Soul, Consciousness

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• This nation under God

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Religious, Nations

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheist, Ideas

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• I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Years, Imagination

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• I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious.
  Told to Valentine Bargmann.

  Albert Einstein

  Valentine, Second Thoughts, Malicious

  Quoted in Jamie Sayen, Einstein in America (1985).

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• Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the "Old One." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Voice, Secret

  Quoted in Ronald W. Clark's Einstein: The Life and Times (p. 340)

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• One on God's side is a majority.

  Wendell Phillips

  Majority, Sides

  Speech on John Brown, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1 Nov. 1859 See Coolidge 2; Douglass 7; Andrew Jackson 7; John Knox 1; Thoreau 9

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• In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

  Timothy Keller

  Meaningful, Pain, Views

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.26, Penguin

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• Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Jobs, Pain

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.197, Penguin

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• Man proposes, God disposes.

  Plautus

  Men, Propose

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• If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Three, Triangles, Sides

  'Lettres Persanes' (1721) no. 59

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• We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Waiting, Suitors, Importunate

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• God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

  Robert Browning

  Perfect, Poet, Creation

  'Paracelsus' (1835) pt. 2, l. 648

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• Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Funny, Humorous, Giving

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.354

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• God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.

  Matthew Arnold

  School, Church, Saint

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• I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Important, Care, Feels

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• When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Fire, Broken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.65, Penguin

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• The heart of God loves a persevering worshipper who, though overwhelmed by many troubles, is overwhelmed even more by the beauty of God.

  Matt Redman

  Love, Beauty, Christian

  FaceBook post by Matt Redman from Oct 28, 2013

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• God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Atheism, Disease, Imagine

  "The Trouble with Being Born". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1973.

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• It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.33, Broadway Books

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• Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult.

  Thomas Reid

  Children, Adults, Littles

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• The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

  Jim Hightower

  Men, Should Have, Damage

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• I believe God's keeping the records and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life; somehow, some way God will make it up to you.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Up To You, Records

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• When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Hope, Encouragement

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