“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”
Questions about God have occupied human minds for as long as human minds have existed. These quotes approach the divine from every angle — faith, doubt, reverence, and the honest wrestling that happens when you take the biggest questions seriously.
“God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.”
“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
“The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.”
“God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'”
“God is absence. God is the solitude of man.”
“God help those who do not help themselves.”
“Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.”
“Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.”
“We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.”
“God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.”
“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
“God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.”
“God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.”
“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.”
“Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.”