Famously Said Random quote

Quotes about God

512 quotes from 237 people

Most readBy personPage 23 of 35

Any heart turned Godward feels more joy
In one short hour of prayer, than e’er was raised
By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
Philip James Bailey1816–1902Festus (1839)
- Happiness
- Prayer
Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.
William Penn1644–1718Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), nos. 551–553
- Love
- Religion
Whatever you do, don’t read the Bible for a moral code: it advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition, and murder. Read it because: we need more atheists — and nothin’ will get you there faster than readin’ the damn Bible.
Penn Jilletteborn 1955“The Bible: Fact or Fiction?” Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, season 2 episode 6 (6 May 2004)
- Anti-Religion
- Atheism
Prayer is petition, intercession, adoration, and contemplation; great saints and mystics have agreed on this definition. To stop short at petition is to pray only in a crippled fashion.
Robertson Davies1913–1995A Voice from the Attic (1960)
- Prayer
When man humbles himself, God cannot restrain His mercy; He must come down and pour His grace into the humble man, and He gives Himself most of all, and all at once, to the least of all.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon III: The Angel’s Greeting
- Pride
All tales may come true; and yet, at the last, redeemed, they may be as like and unlike the forms that we give them as Man, finally redeemed, will be like and unlike the fallen that we know.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973On Fairy-Stories (1939)
- Theology
- Writing
Eugene has to stop doing God’s job. God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977Purple Hibiscus (2003)
- Religion
The chief objection I have to Pantheism is that it says nothing. To call the world “God” is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word “world”.
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860On Pantheism as quoted in Faiths of Famous Men in Their Own Words (1900) by John Kenyon Kilbourn
- Philosophy
I do not believe in God, because I believe in man.
Emma Goldman1869–1940Answering questions after a speech in Detroit (1898), as recounted in Living My Life (1931), p. 207
- Atheism
If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1949), “Membership”
- Love
Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894An Inland Voyage (1878).
- Religion
- Theology
Plenty of hope — for God — no end of hope — only not for us.
Franz Kafka1883–1924Conversation with Max Brod (28 February 1920), as reported in Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography
- Hope
To God, and not to man, are all men to account for their belief.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
- Faith
Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.
George Harrison1943–2001Introduction to Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead (1970) by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Sri Aurobindo: The Hour of God, and Other Writings (1970)
- Laughter