Browsing Quotes With Tag: god (38)
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None of us knows God until someone introduces us.
Speaker: "Pi Patel"Source: the Life of PiPosted: 04 Mar 2014 at 10:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every question possesses a power that does not lie in the answer.
“Man raises himself toward God by the questions he asks Him,” he was fond of repeating. “That is the true dialogue. Man questions God and God answers. But we don’t understand his answers. We can’t understand them. Because they come from the depths of the soul, and they stay there until death. You will find the true answers, Eliezer, only within yourself!”Speaker: NightSource: Elie WieselPosted: 12 Dec 2009 at 7:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He gave it to.
Speaker: Dorothy ParkerPosted: 07 Oct 2009 at 7:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Speaker: Scott AdamsPosted: 06 Sep 2009 at 9:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?Speaker: EpicurusPosted: 30 Aug 2009 at 7:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Not only is it necessary to have faith in God, but also in Jesus Christ, his Son, the Savior of mankind and the Mediator of the New Covenant; and in the Holy Ghost, who bears record of the Father and the Son, “the same in all ages and forever.”
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithPosted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Faith is a gift of God, and when people have faith to live the gospel, and to listen to the counsel of those who preside in the wards and stakes and of the General Authorities of the Church, it has been my experience that they have been abundantly blessed of the Lord, and that many of them have come out of great financial and other difficulties in a most miraculous and wonderful way.
Speaker: Heber J. GrantSource: Gospel Standards, pgs. 273-274Posted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
Posted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
Speaker: Elizabeth Barret BrowningPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.
Speaker: C. S. Lewis, author (1898-1963)Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is.
Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:38 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
…If you wish to go where God is, you must be like God, or possess the principles which God possesses, for if we are not drawing towards God in principle, we are going away from Him and drawing towards the devil.
Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
How easy [it is] to love someone [God] who so singularly loves us!
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the first principle of the gospel to know for a surety the character of God.
Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another… He loves each of us – insecurities, anxieties, self-image, and all – He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When we understand who God is, who we are, how He loves us, and what His plan is for us, fear evaporates. When we get the tiniest glimpse of these truths, our concern over worldly things vanishes. To think we actually fall for Satan’s lies that power, fame, or wealth is truly important is laughable – or would be were it not so sad.
Speaker: John H. GrobergPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The doctrine of inspiration is lost… miracles, prophecy… the holy life, exist as ancient history [only]… men have come to speak of… revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead… It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It seems to me [an]… unreasonable thing, to suppose that there should be a God… that has so much concern [for us]… and yet that He should never speak,… that there should be no word [from Him].
Speaker: Jonathan EdwardsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!