God uses lust to impel men to many, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
—Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian
The kingdom of God is within you.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgerfleflt passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.
—Max Lerner (1902–92) Russian-born American Journalist
God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
—Harold Kushner (b.1935) American Jewish Religious Leader, Priest
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
—Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian
We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
Whoever falls from God’s right hand is caught into his left.
—Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American Poet, Lecturer
The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God, whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of “A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere”.
—Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow—for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.
—Meister Eckhart (c.1260–1327) German Christian Mystic
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
—Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–72) American Jewish Rabbi
My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
—Thomas Merton (1915–68) American Trappist Monk
God delays but doesn’t forget.
—Spanish Proverb
Is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
—Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Humorist
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
—Alice Walker (b.1944) American Novelist, Activist
Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.
—Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) American Christian Science Religious Leader, Humanitarian, Writer
How is it Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?
—Teresa of Avila (1515–82) Spanish Carmelite Nun, Mystic
No man hates God without first hating himself.
—Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) American Catholic Religious Leader, Theologian
To them that ask, where have you seen the Gods, or how do you know for certain there are Gods, that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.
—Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher
By learning to contact, listen to, and act on our intuition, we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.
—Shakti Gawain (b.1948) American Author, Environmentalist
It’s only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
—Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
—William Law (1686–1761) English Clergyman
You are accepted! … accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now, perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything perhaps later you will do much. flo not seek for anything, do not perform anything do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.
—Paul Tillich (1886–1965) American Lutheran Theologian, Philosopher
One unquestioned text we read, All doubt beyond, all fear above; Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
—Unknown
God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.
—Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) American Christian Science Religious Leader, Humanitarian, Writer
When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.
—Unknown
To Be is to live with God.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher