If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
Even God gives up at some point. There's no ministry in hell.
The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are ridiculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor.
The Almighty makes miracles when he pleases, wonder after wonder, and this world rests in his hands.
Slowly but surely withal moveth the might of the gods.
But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I. By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.
Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.
- What God, from everlasting, has foreseen,
- Is of such strength, that though the world had been
- Sure of the contrary, by Yea and Nay,
- That thing will happen on a certain day,
- Though never again within a thousand years.
- And certainly our appetites and fears,
- Whether in war or peace, in hate or love,
- Are governed by a providence above.
The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.
WILLIAM BLAKE, A Memorable Fancy
Gods should not resemble men in their anger!
- In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
- I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name,
- And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go,
- Others will punctually come for ever and ever.
What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How could it be without the creator?
In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.
You know what kind of man I think you are? You're the kind of man who would stand there and smile at his torturers while they were tearing out his guts--if only he could find faith or a god.
- God in heaven has dominion
- Over so many events.
- He can frustrate what seems inevitable,
- And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.
My God is the God of Socrates, of Franklin, of Voltaire.... I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later! Those things aren't only absurd in and of themselves, Madame -- they're completely opposed to all physical laws!
Since the order of world is regulated by death, perhaps is it better for God we do not believe in him and we fight with all our might against death, without raising our eyes heavenward where he keeps silent.
O father, father
Gone from us, lost to us,
The church lies bereft,
Alone,
Desecrated, desolated.
And the heathen shall build
On the ruins
Their world without God.
I see it.
I see it.
- As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods, —
- They kill us for their sport.
The Gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; providence takes its cue from men.
God shall be all in all.
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive--a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. Man's mind, say the mystics of spirit, must be subordinated to the will of God. Man's standard of value, say the mystics of spirit, is the pleasure of God, whose standards are beyond man's power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith. The purpose of man's life is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.
- Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow
- Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
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