Quotes about god

Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it and let it be without imposing a word or mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you. This is what great artists sense and succeed in conveying in their art. Van Gogh didn’t say: “That’s just an old chair.” He looked, and looked, and looked. He sensed the Beingness of the chair. Then he sat in front of the canvas and took up the brush.

In the Bible, it says that God created the world and saw that it was good. That is what you see when you look from stillness without thought. (Ch 1)

With his head in his hands,

God thought and thought,

Till he thought: I'll make me a man!

Young man—Young man—Your arm’s too short to box with God.

And God stepped out on space,

And He looked around and said,

"I'm lonely—

I'll make me a world."

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.

God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness — and Love; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties — if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fullness of the Godhead shines.

The more you loved your God the more deep and pure and true would be your love to me.

God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.

Though I hate him from my heart, and should rejoice at any calamity that could befall him, I'll leave him to God; and though I abhor my own life, I'll leave that, too, to Him that gave it.

There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.