God Quotes - Page 118

The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

God's way is still the best way.

If God is everywhere, I had concluded, then He is in food. Therefore, the more I ate the godlier I would become. Impelled by this new religious fervor, I glutted myself like a fanatic.

The prayer is up to us; the answer is up to God.

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

By being peaceful, quiet, and receptive, you pattern yourself in the image of God, and you regain the power of your Source.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

I met somebody once who said, "I'm a lapsed-atheist" by what he meant was, "I don't believe in God but the older I get the more I realise there is a spirituality in everybody that has to be cherished and nourished." That made a lot of sense to me.

I want to breathe in the Spiritual.

In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man and built up the human species, even a most fervent atheist will wonder if Darwin found the visible road but not the invisible mechanism.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions when he had some spare change he had always made a point of dropping a few coppers into a temple coffer, somewhere, on the principle that a man needed all the friends he could get. But usually he didn't bother the Gods, and he hoped the Gods wouldn't bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.

Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously

A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.

Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

If someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I would reply that I don't separate God from my world in my thinking. I feel that God is everywhere. That's why I never feel separated from God or feel I must seek God, any more than a fish in the ocean feels it must seek water. In a sense, God is the "ocean" in which we live.

If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.