Quotations about God

"To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you."
 

-- James Baldwin

Nobody Knows my Name  

 

"Drummed into me from an early age was the fact that God was the Father, which led to my thinking of God as somebody home only at the weekends. Thinking about God as a Father also meant thinking of Him as a distant sort, One who wasn't to be disturbed because He was busy. One who has concerned with rules and punishments, and One having a short temper."
 

-Regina Barecca

To Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful

 

"If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It’s the only place where anything is safe. And when you’re dead it’s only what’s there you’ll have. Nothing else."
 

-- Elizabeth Goudge

  The Scent of Water

 

"Loving God isn’t any different from loving a man -- or a child.  It’s wanting to be with Him, to be near Him....It’s wanting to protect Him from yourself."
 

-- Graham Greene 

The Power and the Glory  

 

"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God’s thoughts, the rest are details."

-Albert Einstein, 
Physics and Reality  

 

"Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."

--Thomas Jefferson
Notes on Virginia
1784

 

"...a man cannot by the craft and flattery of his tongue lay hold of God while his heart is far away.  No, for since God is spirit and truth, a man can only draw near to Him by sincerity, by willing to be holy, as He is holy: by purity of heart."
 

-- Soren Kierkegaard, 

Purity of Heart  

 

"Father in Heaven!  What is man without Thee!  What is all that he knows, vast accumulation though it be, but a chipped fragment if he does not know Thee!  What is all his striving, could it encompass the World, but a half-finished work if he does not know Thee: Thee the One, who art one thing and who art all!"

-- Soren Kierkegaard  
Purity of Heart
 

 

"God is never known incidentally or accidentally.  He is known in that He makes Himself known."

-- Bernard Ramm
Special Revelation and the Word of God  
 

"Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you look to other people. Be concerned only with how you appear to God, with the idea God has of you."

--Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Life of Don Quixote and Sancho