Quotes about God
Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek the Lord and give God the opportunity to provide through other means before you take out debt.
— Randy Alcorn
Give voluntarily. When we catch a vision of God's grace, we will give beyond our duty.
— Randy Alcorn
The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.
— Reinhold Niebuhr