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God

Quotations from the Wayside

God is no bulwark to the arrogant who spurn the great altar of God’s justice.
AESCHYLUS

We do too narrowly define the power of God, restraining it to our capacities.
ANONYMOUS

Without God we cannot; without us God will not.
ST. AUGUSTINE

If you hallow this life, you meet the living God.
MARTIN BUBER

God listens to the heart, not to words.
GASTON M. CARRIER

Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
I CORINTHIANS 3:16

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
II CORINTHIANS 3:17

You can’t find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.
A. POWELL DAVIES

This something that we call God is the indwelling idealism of humanity.
DURANT DRAKE

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process.
MEISTER ECKHART

God offers the choice between truth and repose. Take which you please—you can never have both.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

God enters by a private door into every individual.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Try first thyself, and after, call in God; for to the worker God lends aid.
EURIPIDES

Wherever souls of men have worshipped, there is God.
HERBERT D. GALLAUDET

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

God enters the world in every man.
WILLIAM B. KILLAM

God is as close to us as we are to ourselves.
MARJORIE NEWLIN LEAMING

The search for God is the search for reality.
SIDNEY E. MEAD

All things proceed from God; all things end in God.
GEORGE MOORE

You love God best when you love men most.
THEODORE PARKER

The Lord is my strength and my song, and is become my salvation.
PSALM 118:14

Every picture of God is a self-portrait.
J. FRANK SCHULMAN

God is not against us for our sins. God is for us against our sins.
DAVID A. SEAMANDS

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