A Quotes
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“A God-tuned master: Innocent of all personal motives, and employing the creative will bestowed on him by the Creator, a yogi rearranges the light atoms of the universe to satisfy any sincere prayer of a devotee.”
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi
“A god who becomes a man shows mercy.
A man who becomes a god does not.”
“A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.”
Source: Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms
“A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice, we make ourselves its accomplices, at times we applaud it, and it is just, very just that we suffer the consequences, that our children suffer them. It is the God of liberty ... who obliges us to love it, by making the yoke heavy for us - a God of mercy, of equity, who while He chastises us betters us and only grants prosperity to him who has merited it through his efforts. The school of suffering tempers, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.”
Source: The reign of greed: a complete English version of El Filibusterismo from the Spanish
“A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!”
Source: The Mysterious Stranger
“A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that’s him, our master. Come, kiss me.”
“A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.”
“A God who draws near out of love, the Holy Father continued, walks with His people, and this walk comes to an unimaginable point. We could never have imagined that the same Lord would become one of us and walk with us, be present with us, present in His Church, present in the Eucharist, present in His Word, present in the poor, He is present, walking with us. And this is closeness: the shepherd close to his flock, close to his sheep, whom he knows, one by one.”
“A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.”
“A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.”
Source: Killosophy
“A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.”
“A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.”
“A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!”
Source: The God Delusion
“A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those who pursue a different path to eternity, there would be no human who should offer worship.”
“A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!”
“A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect, he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all‐knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified.”
“A God who knew the answer to that question would indeed know everything and have everything. For that reason he would be unmotivated to do anything or create anything. There would be no purpose to act in any way whatsoever. But a God who had one nagging question—what happens if I cease to exist?—might be motivated to find the answer in order to complete his knowledge. ... The fact that we exist is proof that God is motivated to act in some way. And since only the challenge of self-destruction could interest an omnipotent God, it stands to reason that we... are God's debris.”
Source: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
“A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.”
“A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.”
“A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.”
“A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.”
Source: The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings
“A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.”
Source: Where Is God When It Hurts?
“A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.”
Source: The Dunciad: In Four Books
“A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.”
“A god without wrath, without intimidation, without punishment, without hell? It would be a paper tiger, a teddy bear!”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“A God you understood would be less than yourself.”
“A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.”
Source: Anansi Boys
“A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology”
“A God-intoxicated man.
[Ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.]”
“A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.”
“A Goddess Adventure represents a combination of heart, head, and soul work”
Source: Transforming Venus: How to Get Unstuck and Let Your Inner Goddess out to Play
“A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.”
Source: Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
“A goddess of dawn
scooted under a zing of barbed wire
to witness your birth.”
Source: The Chameleon Couch
“A godlikeness of character is the Christian’s proper heritage in this earthly walk.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“A godly home begins where two hearts submit—first to Christ, then to one another. From this, love flows and families grow strong.”
“A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness
finds authority by being under authority
finds direction by laying down his plans
finds vision by seeing the needs of others
finds credibility by being an example
finds loyalty by expressing compassion
finds honor by being faithful
finds greatness by being a servant”
“A godly leader will be effective only as much as he stays connected to the great and awesome God and follows His lead.”
Source: Heart Renovation: A Construction Guide to Godly Character
“A Godly life is always the best advertisement for Christianity.”
“A godly man adheres to the protocol of the heavens—a divine code deeply ingrained in his spirit. His steps align with godly rhythms, and his heart beats in sync with destiny.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A godly man can never be the reason for a woman's tears unless they are tears of joy. In her life, he is a sentinel against sorrow. When her tears become imminent, he becomes her shelter, not her storm. With his blessed hands, he does not carve wounds; he stitches brokenness with threads of compassion.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A godly man dares to serve. God has endowed and entrusted him with the instruments of power to have dominion in the land.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A godly man does not care about who does not like him. He fulfils his calling in accordance with God's will.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A godly man does not deprive his woman of peaceful sleep at night. He brings a sense of joy to her heart.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A godly man does not derive pleasure from destroying the life of a woman. His gentle hands nurture key aspects of survival; they do not dismantle them. His joy lies in building meaningful bridges, not burning them.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A godly man does what is right, unperturbed about who is watching him or not. Whether in the bustling marketplace or the quiet corners of solitude, his actions remain consistent because he understands that ultimate accountability lies beyond mortal eyes—before the throne of the Most High.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A godly man has a receptive heart. He is receptive to godly advice. His ears are tuned to Heaven's frequencies and whispers. He focuses his eyes on the sacred light.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A godly man in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world. We know that one drop of sourness, or one drop of gall will make bitter a great deal of it; but if you put a spoonful of gall into a cup of sugar, it will embitter that. Now it is otherwise in heaven: one drop of sweetness will sweeten a great deal of sour affliction, but a great deal of sourness and gall will not embitter a soul who sees the glory of heaven that is to come.”
“A godly man is a compass-bearer. He is a portrait of good character—a man of great charisma. For him, responsibility is not a burden; it is his secret to power.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A godly man is a peaceful pilgrim. He finds peace in knowing that God is with him.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A godly man is like the roots of a bamboo tree. He is deeply rooted in something solid. His foundation is not sand but bedrock—an unshakeable covenant with the Trinity. Even the toughest storms cannot uproot his belief in divinity.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams