Quotes about God

Among the many things that religious tradition holds in store for us is a legacy of wonder. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

A world without time would be a world without God, a world existing in and by itself, without renewal, without a Creator.

We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

As long as man sees religion as a source of satisfaction for his own needs, it is not God whom he serves but his own self.

There is no reverence for God without reverence for man. Love of man is the way to the love of God.

For Sinai consisted of both a divine proclamation and a human perception. It was a moment in which God was not alone.

God is not in things of space, but in moments of time.

A longing for things material is an instrument by which one may approach the love of God; even through coarse desires one may come to love the Creator.

Judaism is God's quest for man.

Thus Judaism is based upon a minimum of revelation and a maximum of interpretation, upon the will of God and upon the understanding of Israel.