God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

God exists if only in the form of a meme with high survival value or infective power in the environment provided by human culture.

God plays pranks and directs He causes tears and quenches tears He cures madness and inflicts madness.

The service of man is the only means by which you can serve GOD.

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path give them then the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire and their foreheads and their sides and their backs shall be branded therewith.

A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk, he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has the one that must be satisfied if there is going to be hope, and a hope of wholeness is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Just like the Alamo somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well by God I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

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

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Once spirit was God then it became man and now it is even becoming mob.

God is a verb not a noun.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment the capacity to believe or at some point in your life when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself you simply make an agreement.

It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Jesus didn't say 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said 'Blessed are we where we are poor where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes and say 'O God forgive me ' or 'Help me.'

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

God is Omnipresent. Present everywhere.

God will not ask you when and where you did service? He will ask with what motive did you do it? What was the intention that prompted you? You may weigh the service and boast of its quantity. But God seeks quality - the quality of heart the purity of mind the holiness of motive.

Know then thyself presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ accepting receiving resting upon Him alone for justification sanctification and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Adore God abhor sin.

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Jesus said First - He is a messenger of God Second - He is the Son of God Third - He and His Father are one.

Adore Him(GOD) placing a garland of tears around His neck, washing His feet with tears springing from joy at the contemplation of His Love! That very worship will endow you with the wisdom that Sages seek and the Bliss that the Books extol!

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight your bodies for the earth, Prepare your arms for glorious victory, Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare prepare!

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God both without us and within us.

There was my name up in lights. I said 'God somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was in lights. And I sat there and said 'Remember you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

I am here to listen to you to console you. Do not by loudness of voice disturb those who are meditating or reading or writing the Name of God.

The love that exists between wife and husband is infatuation. The love that exists among friends and relations is attachment. The love towards material objects is desire. Love in totality directed towards God is known as devotion.

Life is the car your heart is the key and God is the chauffeur.

God is day and night winter and summer war and peace surfeit and hunger.

God is omnipresent. He is the in-dweller of every heart and all names are His. You can call Him by any name that gives you joy. You must not cavil at other names and forms nor become fanatics blind to their glory.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

You are flowers in God Sai Baba

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

Love God with all your heart With all your soul

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me what avails it? Everything lies in this that it should take place in me.

God has given enough avenues of joy in creation. But they have to be shared and enjoyed. You are entitled to just your share of it.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul.

A moment of concentrated prayer from heart is enough to melt and move God, hours of shouting do not count.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can / namely surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things

To God be the praise. I am only the slave of God.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Man has as it were become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent, but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion then you are God.

What is meant by the phrase to know GOD ? It means to love GOD .

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God, the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads he would have made them cute and furry.

Every one is the embodiment of God.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

You have no reason to feel proud when you are able to help another for your skill or wealth or strength or courage or official position that gave you the chance to serve was the gift of God whether you recognize it or not. You are only offering this God's gift to another God's gift namely the poor the illiterate the weak the diseased the grieving the broken-hearted who seek your help.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

The grace of GOD is like insurance. It will help you in your time of need without any limit.

Faith in ourselves and faith in God this is the secret of Greatness for God is Love.

(said of God):If this is the way you treat your friends, it's no wonder you have so few!

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

May none these marks efface! / For they appeal from tyranny to God.

What law what reason can deny that gift so sweet so natural that God has given a stream a fish a beast a bird?

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

It was ascribed to one's past deeds and one's own mental tendencies. It is wrong to cast the blame on others. But someone pointed out that God was the originator of both joy and grief and that without His Will no blade of grass can waver in the wind, Yes, if that Truth be firmly established in the heart one gets the unique bliss of liberation.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

If you suffer thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Nothing is void of God his work is everywhere his full of himself.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Every woman and every man is God the Father's wife when the faithful soul is joined to our Lord Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit.

And poets in my view and I think the view of most people do speak God's language - it's better it's finer it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

What God gives is never exhausted What man gives never lasts.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who having sown tares asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is created has its Self this Oneness.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another but from God only.

In order to lead a fruitful and meaningful life render service to mankind which will take you nearer to God.

The more we come out and do good to others the more our hearts will be purified and God will be in them.

If you believe in God believe in Death Row East.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

We should not aspire for acclaim and praise from those around us but do service only to secure the Grace of God and not for any other reward from any one.

God help those who do not help themselves.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart not by the reason.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

God always takes the simplest way.

Death and life are the manifestations of God Sai Baba

Even when no one is seeing God is watching your actions always. Do everything with this awareness.

IF you feel you must have something to be happy pray to God God you have the responsibility to keep me healthy happy good and intelligent, give me this thing which I believe is necessary for my happiness, but if you think I am wrong give me whatever you think best . God will never desert His obligation. He will feed you and foster you.

To a worldly man a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him But to the God-intoxicated man the worldly appear insane foolish misled blind.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off, he is always standing close at hand and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more and theory less and less. A fact it seems to me is a great thing, a sentence printed if not by God then at least by the Devil.

To think is of itself to be useful, it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

God reigns when we take a liberal view when a liberal view is presented to us.

Carry the name of God to every door wake the sleeping with it purify the atmosphere of the streets rendered unclean by angry shouts of hate or greed faction or fight.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

It is quite true as some poets said that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor creating him a reasonable being yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

And now the time returns again: / Our souls exult and London's towers / Receive the Lamb of God to dwell / In England's green and pleasant bowers.

For none deny there is a God but those for whom it maketh that there were no God.

I actually pray everyday but I don't believe in God.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human as man who created a child and then by his absence left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily and the raw material cost so little that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

In the Lord's Prayer the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence although not a priori yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

It is convenient that there be gods and as it is convenient let us believe there are.

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle sir is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant the active the brave.

Turn to world you get bound - turn to God you get liberated.

God appears and God is Light To those poor souls who dwell in Night But does a human form display To those who dwell in realms of day.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined but which man has put asunder.

Grieve not then if your sons seem to desert you but rejoice rather seeing the will of God done gladly.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman

Without God democracy will not and cannot long endure.

O my God what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

God is important. If you have God with you, you will have the rest. Real wealth is God. Real health is God. We should make every effort to pray for God. Because we are from God, we should be back to God.

The author in his work must be like God in the Universe present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Incidentally why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?

I am a world-class weenie when it comes to letting people stick needles into me. My subconscious mind firmly believes that if God had wanted us to have direct access to our bloodstreams He would have equipped our skin with small clearly marked doors.

So many gods so many creeds so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Seeing is believing I will believe in God only if I see Him, but are all things seen or heard or touched or tasted as real as they seem?

He is meek and He is mild, / He became a little child. / I a child and thou a lamb / We are called by His name. / Little Lamb God bless thee!

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can, and to fly away is to become like God as far as this is possible, and to become like him is to become holy just and wise.

There are two great forces. God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over he would have put diamonds on the floor.

Have faith in His Grace and lead a virtuous life a life devoted to the service of the weak, a life spent in the thought about the might and glory of God.

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

If there were no God it would be necessary to invent him.

I would have liked having children to some degree but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

Remember God is your guardian when you sleep, when you are helpless, even when you have forgotten or neglected or discarded Him. He has no need you offer or promise to offer. He is ever content ever blissful ever full and ever free. Do your duty to yourself - that is enough offering for Him.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

All works are God's. He inspires He helps He executes He enjoys He is pleased He reaps and He sowed.

We see God face to face every hour and know the savor of Nature.

A God without dominion, providence and final causes is nothing else but fate and nature.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never ever be boring.

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

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

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

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it though that the critics think you can't do it.

It is not all bad this getting old ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent life shall be longer and shall pass into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams.

If you avoid rivalry and dispute God will protect you.

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Love God incessantly.

When suffering comes we yearn for some sign from God forgetting we have just had one.

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

The joy that we cause in the heart of GOD is the only worthwhile achievement.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Despising brother-man you cannot at the same time worship God, if you do God will not accept that hypocrisy. God is resident in every heart, so if you serve any one that service reaches God within him it brings to you the Grace of God.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it the more we contemplate him.

Let God work through you and there will be no more duty. Let God shine forth. Let God show Himself. Live God Eat God. Drink God. Breathe God. Realize the Truth and the other things will take care of themselves.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone but also on trees and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts "God save the Queen", when she loses she votes down the prime minister.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

The poor wish for wealth, animals for the faculty of speech, men wish for heaven, and godly persons for liberation.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

If God is a flower you should feel yourself a bee that sucks its honey,

All your Western theologies the whole mythology of them are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

The fox provides for himself but God provides for the lion.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

God equals man minus ego.

Nietzsche says that we will live the same life over and over again. God - I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.

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

Deserve the Grace of God by helping the weak and poor the diseased and the disabled the distressed and the downtrodden.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

Living with God is the true education.

You hear a lot about God these days: God the beneficent, God the all-great, God the Almighty, God the most powerful, God the giver of life, God the creator of death. I mean we're hearing about God all the time so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God God is arbitrary.

Reading about nature is fine but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully he can learn more than what is in books for they speak with the voice of God.

God is Within You! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about you will be able to live with it and affirm it perhaps even enjoy it as your life.

The essence of all religions is One. Surrender is the main duty of everyone. Surrender means the feeling of oneness I and God are One. Why? The reason is that the One who is present in you is present in me.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Believing would be easier if God would show himself by depositing a million dollars in a Swiss bank account in my name

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing the sage in much and God in everything.

For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men sufficiently as others are to escape attention

When I was playing before I retired I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something and that was very embarrassing.

God does not play dice.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness which never again ceases.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him or define him.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say oh God I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods and of every good to man.

Honor every religion, each is a pathway to the one God.

Meditate on what you read and think of God.

See God in every one you meet, see God in every thing you handle. Live together revere each other let not the seeds of envy and hate grow and choke the clear stream of Love.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

The followers of each religion call upon One God who is omnipresent and listens to their prayers be they from any race or whatever language they speak, but it is the same God who confers happiness on all of mankind.

Not only is there no God but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it it wishes and goes as God wills, if Satan mounts it it wishes and goes as Satan wills, Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Because we cannot know what God is but only what He is not we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

Woman was God's second mistake.

As close as you are to GOD so close is GOD to you.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Hear good things see good do good think good then you get the Grace of God as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

Oh for God's sake... get a life will you?

God as Truth has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

God should not be called an individual substance since the principal of individuation is matter.

I looked for my soul but my soul I could not see. I looked for my God but my God eluded me. I looked for a friend and then I found all three.

When the sun rises do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no no I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying "Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty."

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Everyone has Love towards some thing or other and that Love is a spark of the Divine, everyone has ultimately to base his life on some one Truth, that Truth is God.

The heart of man which is now allowed to lie fallow has to be ploughed by spiritual exercises like repetition of GOD's name.

When you kill an animal you give him suffering pain harm. GOD is in every creature so how can you give such pain?

TURN TOWARDS GOD AND GOD WILL TURN TOWARDS YOU

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Not only does God play dice but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

God is in you around you behind you above you beside you.

You may worship the picture of God but you should not worship god as a picture.

We are separated from God on two sides, the Fall separates us from Him the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Let the day dawn for you and others with thought of the Almighty the Compassionate and the Omnipresent self-knowing God. What greater service can you do to yourself and others? This will give you health and happiness.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved dearer than everything in this and next life.

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking innovative risk-taking God- loving family-oriented American people.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

In the name of God stop a moment cease your work look around you.

The gods are watching but idly yawning.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process and you have to go from one level to another.

The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

The universe is one of God's thoughts.

Call it Nature Fate Fortune, all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Peace can be got only through Faith, Faith is the spring of Joy. But now we see Sorrow wherever we cast our eyes. Why does this happen ? Because man has lost Faith. He has no Faith in himself. How then can he acquire Ananda ? How can a person how has not got Faith enough to live happily for a few days win the Grace of God ?

Put full faith in God Sai Baba

The Moral Law is inexorable so follow it observe it and you will reach your goal God is the perfection of the Moral Law.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we all our lives have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?