Quotes on God

I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.

Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.