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God

God enters by a private door into each individual. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. – Saint Augustine

In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. – Jean Paul Richter

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else. – Herbert Butterfield, Christianity and History

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. – Alfred North Whitehead

God is the perfect poet. – Robert Browning

The universe is just God, struggling to create Himself. – Dr. Idel Dreimer, www.lumpenbangenpiano.com

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God. – Augustine

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are. – Erik Satie

Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to God for a faith lift. – Author Unknown

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Really. – Lenny Bruce, “Religions Inc.”

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank. – Christina Rossetti

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants. – Henry David Thoreau

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself. – Miguel de Unamuno

Most people wish to serve God — but only in an advisory capacity. – Author Unknown

The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart. – Blaise Pascal

God can never be a definition. He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary. – Terri Guillemets

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. – Malcolm Muggeridge