God famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
-- A.J. Cronin -
[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.
-- Aaron Huey -
All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.
-- Abol-Ghasem Kashani -
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
-- Aeschylus -
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
-- Aeschylus -
Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.
-- Aga Khan IV -
The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfillment.
-- Agnivesh -
The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.
-- Agnivesh -
Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life;
-- Agnivesh -
...all human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being. Spirituality mandates us to wage a relentless war to eradicate these forces of oppression and disempowerment.
-- Agnivesh -
First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.
-- Agnivesh -
God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Yes, I believe you can be right with God and still not like the way some people behave. Our admonition is to love them in a larger and more comprehensive way because we are all one in Christ Jesus. This kind of love is indeed a Christian virtue!
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves!
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Christianity is hard when we try to serve God in man's way instead of serving God in God's way.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.
-- Al-Ghazali -
The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
-- Alain de Botton -
It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
-- Alain de Botton -
The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.
-- Alain de Botton -
Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.
-- Alain de Botton -
We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.
-- Alain de Botton -
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
-- Alan Watts -
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
-- Albert Camus -
Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.
-- Albert Camus -
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.
-- Albert Camus -
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
-- Albert Einstein -
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
-- Albert Einstein -
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-- Albert Einstein -
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein -
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
-- Albert Einstein -
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
-- Albert Einstein -
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
-- Albert Einstein -
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
-- Albert Einstein -
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
-- Albert Einstein -
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
-- Albert Einstein -
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
-- Albert Einstein -
The environment is everything that isn't me.
-- Albert Einstein -
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
-- Albert Einstein -
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
-- Albert Einstein -
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
-- Albert Einstein -
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
-- Albert Einstein -
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
-- Albert Einstein -
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
-- Albert Einstein -
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
-- Albert Einstein -
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
-- Albert Einstein -
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
-- Albert Einstein -
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
-- Albert Einstein -
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
-- Albert Einstein -
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.
-- Albert Einstein -
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-- Albert Einstein -
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
-- Albert Einstein -
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
-- Albert Einstein -
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
-- Albert Einstein -
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
-- Albert Einstein -
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
-- Albert Einstein -
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
-- Albert Einstein -
I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
-- Albert Einstein -
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
-- Albert Einstein -
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 -
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.
-- Albert Einstein -
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
-- Albert Einstein -
There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]
-- Alcuin -
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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 -
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
-- Alexander Pope -
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
-- Alexander Pope -
To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
-- Alexander Pope -
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
-- Alexander Pope -
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
-- Alfred Adler -
To know God is to be adjusted to daily living.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
-- Alfred Jarry -
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
