God Quotes - Page 123

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.

Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed - they died for what they claim to have seen.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

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.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

We must like Moses cover ourselves with faith and humility while we steal a quick look at the God whom no man can see and live. The broken and the contrite heart He will not despise. We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God passed by. We must take refuge from God in God.

We must never rest until everything inside us worships God.

I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.

Where ever I go, God will be with me.

The presence of God is the finest of rewards.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not. In every atom, He alone is present. From the ant to the universe, He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.

Talking to God was damned good business.

Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

Meekness is marked by silence in the face of abuse and infamy, by submission to God's way, which is higher than our way as heaven is higher than the earth, by submissiveness to others for their welfare. It is the source of inexpressible joy and contentment.

Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone.

Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.