Quotes about God
It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.
- Henry David Thoreau
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.
- Henry David Thoreau
Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul will still remain, face to face with God.
- Henry Parry Liddon
We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.
- Henry Parry Liddon
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!
- Henry Ward Beecher
Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
- Henry Ward Beecher