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| Abstract of a Godly image |
One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God. Gustave White
There is a sort of transcendental ventriloquism through which men can be made to believe that something which was said on earth came from heaven. George Christoph Lichtenberg
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that god is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is. Pascal
My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from god and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation. Emerson
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of, we blind them as quickly as possible. Russell Hoban
As the poet said, “Only God can make a tree” probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. Woody Allen
Death is God’s way of telling you not to be such a wise guy. Majel Bloom
We are ignorant of the beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting, by vanishing. Jules Renard
Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, “God forbid that it should ever befall me!” Plutarch
The certainty of a god giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. Albert Camus
Even God lends a hand to honest boldness. Menander
Forgetfulness is a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. Ambrose Bierce
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C S Lewis
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. Socrates
I’m not denying’ that women are foolish; God Almighty made them to match men. George Eliot
No religion has ever given a picture of deity which men could have imitated without the grossest immorality. Santayana
I figure that if God actually does exist, He’s big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion. Isaac Asimov
It is god that accomplishes all term to hopes, who overtakes the flying eagle, out-passes the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high. Pindar
The skirts of gods drag in our mud. We feel the touch and take it to be a kiss. Christopher Fry
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner. Elbert Hubbard
If a small child asks you where rain comes from, I think a reasonable response is simply that “God is crying.” And, if he asks you why God is crying, the only possible answer is “Probably because of something you did.” Stephen H. Pinter
In God’s wilderness lies the hope of the world; the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilisation drops off and wounds heal ere we are aware. John Muir
No one has the capacity to judge god. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy. Mohandas K. Gandhi
Earth’s crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with god. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation. Woodrow Wilson
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Jen Jones Proverbs
The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences. Confucius
The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being. Emerson
When men and women cease to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing. They believe in anything. G. K. Chesterton
Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue. Hafiz
Our love for god is tested by the question of whether we seek him or his gifts. Ralph W. Sockman
Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us and are always bothering us to do something for them. Oscar Wilde
The man whom heaven helps has friends enough. Euripides
We should find god in what we do know, not in what we don’t; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Every man thinks god is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. Jean Anouilh
If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps. Emerson
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, satiety and want. Heraclitus
The theologian who has no joy in his work is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this science. Karl Barth
The way of god in complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order. Euripides
I found him in the shining of the stars. I marked him in the flowering of his fields, but in his ways with men I find him not. Alfred Lord Tennyson
No reason can be given for the nature of god, because that nature is the ground of rationality. Alfred North Whitehead
If God did not exist, it would be necessary for humankind to invent him. Voltaire
The cure for false theology is mother-wit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. Emerson
Do not speak of god much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism. Emerson
What is the meaning of life? That was all; a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with the years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark. Virginia Woolf
It is not for me to attempt to fathom the inscrutable workings of Providence. Earl of Birkenhead
To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that god is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball. Victor Hugo
You cannot plumb the depths of the human heart, nor find out what a man is thinking; yet how do you expect to search out god, who made all these things, and find out his mind or comprehend his thoughts? Bible; Judith 8.14
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all god will not help him. H. L. Mencken
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that god’s dust is greater than your idol. Tagore
There are many scapegoats for our blunders, but the most popular one is providence. Mark Twain
If every great gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a god; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that. John Donne
If god were not a necessary being of himself, he might seem to be made for the use and benefit of men. John Tillotson
Closer is he than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Unloose the cords of thine heart, and consider not the sky’s secret; for the thought of no geometrician hath ever untied that knot. Hafiz
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than men, god never opens the window. Jules Renard
Instead of complaining that god had hidden himself, you will give him thanks for revealing so much of himself. Pascal
