Quotes about God
512 quotes from 237 people
Charity is the great channel through which God passes all his mercy upon mankind.
Jeremy Taylor1613–1667Holy Dying (1651), chapter 2, section 3.If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
E. M. Forster1879–1970Aspects of the Novel (1927), Chapter Three: PeopleAs God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon VII: Outward and Inward MoralityThe God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the God of the philosophers is the same God.
Paul Tillich1886–1965Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality (1955), p. 80The Bedouin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
T. E. Lawrence1888–1935Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
Thomas Pynchonborn 1937Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Pt. 3The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.
Timothy Leary1920–1996Harvard Law School Forum (1966)One human thought alone is worth more than the entire world, hence God alone is worthy of it.
John of the Cross1542–1591The Sayings of Light and LoveIf I were God, I certainly wouldn’t want people to love me sentimentally. It’s too unreliable.
J. D. Salinger1919–2010Teddy (1953)Pray but one prayer for me ‘twixt thy closed lips,
Think but one thought of me up in the stars.
William Morris1834–1896The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems (1858), “Summer Dawn”
Rumi1207–1273Masnavi I, 3009-12 (tr. Helminski, 1990)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1918–2008Interview with Joseph Pearce (2003)- Thomas Pynchonborn 1937Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Pt. 4
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Notes from Devotional Authors of the Middle Ages (1873-1874)
William Penn1644–1718Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), nos. 554–556