Quotes about god

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.

It did not seem fair to drown the cabin boy and the captain and all the rest for something he had done, but when had the gods ever been fair?

In the darkness all of the gods were strangers.

We princes make our careful plans and the gods smash them all awry.

As it is not by the methods of the laboratory that we learn to know life, so it is not by the methods of the intellect that we learn to know God.

Divine Providence only gives man as much as he is prepared to receive; if his receptive capacity be small, he obtains little, and much if it be great.

Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs, fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.

But, though I wouldn't have admitted it, even to myself, I didn't want God aboard. He was too heavy. I wanted Him approving from a considerable distance.

The gifts of the Almighty are weighed and parceled out in a scale peculiar to himself. It's no fair accountin and I dont doubt but what he'd be the first to admit it and you put the query to him boldface.

So every day

I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth

of the ideas of God,one of which was you.

I don't know what God is.

I don't know what death is.But I believe they have between them

some fervent and necessary arrangement.

“I suspect we would be wise,” he said without looking up, “to avoid declaring what God will or will not allow.”