Quotes on God

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean

God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.