Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
I have always kept one end in view, namely… to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honor of God.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Harmony is next to Godliness.
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences." "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.
..Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.”
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He is the highest point of the scale, pure act and active power, the purest light.
Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Things impolitic and dangerous: praise for Greek ideals, supernatural magic, visits to pagan temples. Enthusiasm for the ancient gods
Man appoints, God disappoints.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
People invented the Goddess of Luck to justify their own lack of willpower.
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
It is the privilege of the Gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
To know God and not oneself to be God, to know blessedness and not oneself to enjoy it, is a state of disunity or unhappiness.”
“The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.”
God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.”
The idea of God is the ignorance which solves all doubt by repressing it.
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
God will forgive me. It's his job.
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the Gods, lend yourself a hand.
Man proposes, God disposes
My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
I said to the almond tree, 'Speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.
God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.
I do not wish to become a god or a hero. I only wish to become a tree, growing for centuries without harming anyone.
Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Those who have loved are those that have found God'
He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.
“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.”
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.
I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man
When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me.
Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
The music I have learned and want to offer is like worship to God. It is absolutely like a prayer.
God is the hope, we all have inside us and keep us alive. God is the soul, or otherwise the energy we have inside us and help us to deal with everything in life. God is the birth, a new life from nothing, from no existence to existence.
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
God is the relegated and lazy sovereign of a constitutional monarchy, where Satan serves as Prime Minister.
God lacks practical existence.
God is cruel to the poor.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn’ fool if they weren’t.
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ”
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.