Best God Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.”

World God Faces Turns Mercy Property Rounds Glasses Invisible Visible Hung Chamber Bounty

Book:CXLV Espository Sermons Upon the Whole 17th Chapter of the Gospel According to St. John: Or, Christ's Prayer Before His Passion Explicated and Both Practically and Polemically Improved

Source: CXLV Espository Sermons Upon the Whole 17th Chapter of the Gospel According to St. John: Or, Christ's Prayer Before His Passion Explicated and Both Practically and Polemically Improved

“Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.”

Men Should Art God Earth Heaven Glory Works Of Art Mechanism Heaven And Earth Converses

Author:Aristotle

“He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.”

God

Book:Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]

Source: Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]

“Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with the like sail, and therefore God, to keep us from oversetting, puts on so much as will safest bring us to heaven, our desired port.”

May God Heaven Bears Load Sail Vessel Port

Book:The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins: Successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry

Source: The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins: Successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry

“Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.”

Ifs Feels Years God Feelings Humanity Existence Share Ocean Hundred Dignity Eternity Cease Chains Barriers Egotism Momentary

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.”

God Force Consciousness Truth Is Pure Eternal Essence Essence Of Life

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry, so arid, so hard; this rock which thou hast struck a second time, will not resist thee any longer, for out of it there now gushes healthful waters in abundance. The selfsame voice of God which overturns the mountains, thunders, lightens, and divides the heaven above, now commands the clouds to pour forth showers of blessings, changing the desert of his soul into a field producing a hundredfold; that voice I hear.”

Heart Soul Hard God Eye Heaven Voice Water Rocks Fields Tears Divine Blessing Mountain Flow Clouds Command My Soul Thee Desert Dry Abundance Divides Showers Thunder Voice Of God

Author:Jean Baptiste Massillon

“God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.”

God Crosses Delight Crafts God Love Worldly

Author:Joseph Caryl

“God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.”

God Atheism Conscience Atheist

Book:The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

“God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.”

God Nations Race Grace Revelations Monopoly God's Grace

Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True

“For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.”

Mean God Certain Knowing God Love Nonviolence Knowing God Ahimsa

Book:Gita: The Mother

Source: Gita: The Mother

“I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure.”

Children God Light Night Break Safe Secure Thee Dawn

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Guru, God and Self are One”

Self God Guru

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.”

Soul Matter God Body Light Joy Grief Shining Gods Will Candle

Book:The Works of the Reverend Richard Sibbs, D.D. Late Master of Catharine-Hall in the University of Oxford, and Preacher of Gray's Inn, London: To which is Prefixed, a Short Memoir of the Author's Life

Source: The Works of the Reverend Richard Sibbs, D.D. Late Master of Catharine-Hall in the University of Oxford, and Preacher of Gray's Inn, London: To which is Prefixed, a Short Memoir of the Author's Life

“They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.”

Believe Doe Soul Reason God My Own Opinion Saws Truth Is Prejudice Appearance Reasoning Convincing

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one's spiritual realization one will find that He who resides in one's heart, resides in the hearts of others as well - the oppressed, the persecuted, the untouchable, and the outcast.”

Knows Wells Heart God Spiritual Realizing Oneself Realization Grants Oppressed Fullness Illumination Outcast Persecuted Untouchables

Author:Sarada Devi

“It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God.”

Knows Men World May God Body Inspire Casts Cease Garments

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.”

Needs God Reading Religious Learning Information Blessing Negative Gods Will Bless Goddess Disturbing Discarded Learning By Doing Need God