Quotes about God

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

The Lord God is subtle, but malicious he is not.

God may be subtle, but He isn't mean.

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather, I prefer to dwell with the source, tasting of the unadulterated waters of the fountain of truth - the word of God as he gave it and as it has been recorded in the books we accept as scripture.

Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.