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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON GOD 3
You are within God. God is within you.
Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981, American peace activist)
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
Plotinus (c. 204-270. Egyptian philosopher, founder of Neo-Platonism)
God does not pay weekly, but he pays at the end.
Dutch Proverb (Sayings of Dutch origin)
God is closest to those with broken hearts.
Jewish Proverb (Sayings of Jewish origin)
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Jewish Proverb (Sayings of Jewish origin)
The rich man carries God in his pocket, the poor man in his heart.
Jewish Proverb (Sayings of Jewish origin)
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.
Russian Proverb (Sayings of Russian origin)
Forsake not God till you find a better master.
Scottish Proverb (Sayings of Scottish origin)
Every man for himself and God for us all.
Spanish Proverb (Sayings of Spanish origin)
God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.
Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886, Indian mystic)
People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.
Swami Ramdas
Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.
Swami Ramdas
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Ayn Rand (1905-1982, Russian philosopher, author, "Atlas Shrugged")
God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
Lynn Redgrave
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 a man.
Thomas Reid (1710-1769, Scottish philosopher)
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825, German novelist)
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825, German novelist)
And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891, French poet)
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
Jean Rostand (1894-1977, French biologist, writer)
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
Jean Rostand (1894-1977, French biologist, writer)
God is the name we give our conscience.
Nader Shureih
To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.
George W. Truett
I fear God, and next to God, I mostly fear them that fear Him not.
Saadi (c. 1210 - 1290, Persian poet)
Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavadra
If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.
Salvatore Satta (1902-1975, Italian jurist, novelist)
You have to believe in gods to see them.
Hopi Indian saying
While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
He is more within us than we are ourselves.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
The Father most tender, Father of all, my immense God -- I His atom.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
To me, the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
No man hates God without first hating himself.
Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979, American Roman Catholic clergyman, broadcaster)
I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
Martin Sheen (1940-, American actor)
I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.
A. B. Simpson
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991, Polish-born American journalist, writer)
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946, Anglo-American essayist, aphorist)
I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.
Margaret Chase Smith
The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom, and then put me back in my place.
Bernadette Soubirous
Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.
J. A. Spender
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
St. John of the Cross (1542-1591, Spanish Christian mystic and poet)
All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
Freya Stark (1893-1993, British travel writer)
We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.
Author Unknown
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.
Lucy Stone
Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896, American novelist, antislavery campaigner)
God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.
Joseph Stowell
Let God love you through others and let God love others through you.
D.M. Street
To think you are separate from God is to remain separate from your own being.
D.M. Street
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart
Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone.
Henry Suso
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, Indian poet, philosopher)
God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.
Johannes Tauler
Pardon, not wrath, is God's best attribute.
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878, American journalist, traveler, author)
A comprehended God is no God at all.
Gerhard Tersteegen
And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Deuteronomy 10:12
But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Deuteronomy 4:29
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Hebrews 11:1
For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Numbers 23:19
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassion fails not.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
The kingdom of God is within you.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Luke 17:21
The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Luke 18:27
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Proverbs 3:5-6
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 (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
Paul Tillich (1886-1965, German protestant theologian, philosopher)
You are accepted!... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now, perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything, perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything, do not perform anything, do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.
Paul Tillich (1886-1965, German protestant theologian, philosopher)
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.'
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963, American preacher)
If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963, American preacher)
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963, American preacher)
The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice -- any choice will be the right one.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963, American preacher)
The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice -- any choice will be the right one.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963, American preacher)
What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963, American preacher)
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
Miguel De Unamuno (1864-1936, Spanish philosophical writer)
Be not hot in prayer and cold in praise.
Author Unknown
Deep down in every man, woman and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.
Author Unknown
If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.
Author Unknown
Lord, make me willing To give what I cannot keep, To gain what I cannot lose.
Author Unknown
Man does what he can, God does what he will.
Author Unknown
Man does what he can, God does what he will.
Author Unknown
Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly.... Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities.
Author Unknown
God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together -- humble dependence and manly independence: humble dependence on God, and manly reliance on self.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850, British poet)
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Author Unknown
Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.
Author Unknown
Your mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart already knows. Minds were designed for carrying out the orders of the heart.
Author Unknown
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
John Updike (1932-, American novelist, critic)
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery (1871-1945, French poet, essayist)
Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.
Virgil (c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman poet)
The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God, whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
God knows no distance.
Charleszetta Waddles
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
Alice Walker (1944-, American author, critic)
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
Daniel Webster (1782-1852, American lawyer, statesman)
In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
Acts of generosity and benevolence were designed by God to keep the hearts of the children of men tender and sympathetic, and to encourage in them an interest and affection for one another, in imitation of the Master, who for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich.
Ellen Gould White (1827-1915, American seventh-day Adventist leader)
Those who in everything make God first and last and best, are the happiest people in the world.
Ellen Gould White (1827-1915, American seventh-day Adventist leader)
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892, American poet)
Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892, American poet, reformer, author)
Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892, American poet, reformer, author)
I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
Elie Wiesel (1928-, Rumanian-born American writer)
God gets you to the plate, but once your there you're on your own.
Ted Williams (1918-, American baseball player)
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
Tennessee Williams (1914-1983, American dramatist)
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Zig Ziglar (1926-, American sales trainer, author, motivational speaker) Author's website: www.zigziglar.com
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