And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12]

Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

In His will is our peace.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

There is no God but God.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.

Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

God is the name we give our conscience.

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument -- their intellect -- which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.

God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.