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God - aphorisms, sayings, quotes

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

Man by himself cannot know Him (Allah). His substance is known through Himself.

Hey, you who are unable to know yourself, how can you know Allah?

You demand healing from your mind, soul and body. If He (Allah) does not command healing, healing will turn into misfortune.

Ava Sisoy

Seek God, but don’t look where He lives.

Whatever temptation happens to a person, he must surrender himself to the will of God and confess that the temptation happened because of his sins. If something good happens, it must be said that it happened according to the providence of God.

Aurelius Augustine

Love the Lord and do whatever you want.

God is beyond all definitions.

Agatha Christie

His god expected the servants of the Lord to make their own decisions, developing the abilities that the Lord had endowed them with.

Ayn Rand

Any god - no matter what meaning is put into this word - is the embodiment of what a person considers above himself. And if a person puts fiction above himself, it means he has a very low opinion of himself and his life.

Vasily Aksyonov

God is the entire Universe in which there are people.

If you want God to laugh, tell him your plans.

How can I believe in God when my tongue got stuck in the roller of an electric typewriter last week?

Alfonso X of Castile

If God, when creating the world, asked me for advice, I would tell Him how to make the Universe simpler.

Apostle Paul

If God is for you, who can be against you?

Ludovico Ariosto

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Sri Aurobindo

A God who couldn't smile couldn't have created this hilarious universe.

Honore de Balzac

To doubt God means to believe in him.

The desert is God without people.

Samuel Butler

God's virtues are so transcendental, so it is not surprising that his shortcomings should be in reasonable proportion.

I hate those who hate God, but I don't think God hates those who hate me enough.

Yes, God is Love. But what a devilish idea is this love!

God is not as bad as he is painted, but not as good either.

Frederic Beigbeder

After all that people have done for God, he could still give himself the trouble to exist.

Nikolay Berdyaev

The main thought of man is the thought of God, the main thought of God is the thought of man.

Bible

God! His way is blameless, the word of the Lord is pure, He is a shield to all who trust in Him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A God who would allow us to verify his existence would not be God, but an idol.

Kazimierz Brandys

Previously, they were looking for evidence of the existence of God, now we have to look for evidence of the existence of man.

Dan Brown

Sometimes divine revelation only means that your mind opens up so that it hears in your heart what it has already known for a long time.

We all benefit from being part of something divine... even if it's imaginary.

Robert Browning

God is an impeccable poet.

God is in heaven - all is right with the world.

Osip Brik

There is a God, but I don't believe in him.

Pierre Buast

God alone can compile a perfect dictionary.

Yuzef Bulatovich

Every person would become God if God allowed it.

Frank Buchman

One man, together with God, constitutes the majority.

Paul Valéry

Miracles testify to God's contempt for human reason.

Boris Vasiliev

God is a form, that is, a way of explaining the incomprehensible that is accessible to us.

Virgil

God is pleased with odd numbers.

Voltaire

God should not suffer at all because of the stupidity of his priest.

In order to know him [God], you have to be him yourself.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of the best shooters.

If God created man in his own image and likeness, then man repaid him in kind.

If there is no God, then he would definitely have to be invented.

The ideas of God among men are as varied as their religions and laws. All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but not one of them is born with the knowledge of God; Whether it is unfortunate or not, this is undoubtedly the human condition.

Stefan Wyszynski

People decided that there is no God, but their decision is not binding on God.

Galileo Galilei

I don't have to believe that the same God gave us feelings, common sense and reason - and at the same time demands that we refuse to use them.

Mahatma Gandhi

God has no religion.

Heinrich Heine

God will forgive me the stupid things I said about him, just as I forgive my opponents the stupid things they wrote against me, although spiritually they were as much lower than me as I am lower than you, O Lord!

God created cattle because meat soups strengthen a person, he created donkeys so that they could serve for comparisons, and he created man himself so that he would eat meat soups and not be a donkey.

Homer

God finds the culprit.

Jules de Goncourt

If God exists, then atheism should seem less of an insult to him than religion.

Gregory the Theologian

God creates everything as he wants, and man - as he can.

Freeman Dyson

God is a mind that has outgrown the boundaries of our understanding.

Thomas Jefferson

Whenever I remember that God is just, I tremble for my country.

Sergey Dovlatov

They don’t ask God for more.

Fedor Dostoevsky

The devil fights with God, and the battlefield is the hearts of people.

Joseph Joubert

It is easy to understand God unless you try to explain him.

Vadim Zeland

Man has imagined himself to be such an important figure that he believes that God, with all his power and mercy, will take care of his well-being. God has already given man too much - freedom of choice, but because of his immaturity he does not want to accept this gift and is always dissatisfied.

Isaac Singer

God is a writer, and we are all heroes and readers at the same time.

John Chrysostom

God does not want us to rejoice in the punishment of others, even when He himself punishes them - because He Himself is reluctant to punish.

He who does not love has not known God, because God is love.

Robert Ingersoll

The Righteous God is the noblest creation of man.

John the Theologian

He who does not love [his neighbors] has not known God, because God is love.

Albert Camus

We turn to God only to get the impossible.

Elias Canetti

There is nothing more boring than being an object of worship. And as soon as God endures it.

The hardest thing for us to bear would be the kind of God we have invented for ourselves.

Boris Krieger

We created Him in our own image and likeness only so that we would have someone to trust in. God, looking around, hastened to create us, for He has no one else to trust in. Have you ever thought that God needs us as much as He needs us?

Anna Krzyzanowska

The strong see God as proof of their strength, the weak as protection from their weakness.

Alphonse de Lamartine

God is just a word made up to explain the world.

Martti Larni

Many believe in God, but few believe in God.

Francois VI de La Rochefoucauld

As punishment for original sin God allowed man to create an idol out of selfishness, so that it would torment him on all paths of life.

Wilhelm Leibniz

God acts as the greatest geometer who prefers the best solution to problems.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

God is not an angel.

It's hard for God to prove your alibi.

What do I believe? In God, if he exists.

Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.

Sometimes you want to pray for the existence of God!

If God is omnipresent, every road must lead to him.

God's finger never leaves identical fingerprints.

God fulfills the desires of believers and atheists. Either he is, or he is not.

It is best to turn to foreign gods: they will listen to you out of turn.

A real man consists of questions; a real God would consist of answers.

It seems that things are heading towards the fact that Science will discover God. And I tremble in advance for his fate.

Sometimes it seems to me that the Creator is fascinated by the English monarchical system: God reigns, but does not rule.

Abraham Lincoln

I think that if God had created people whose purpose was only to eat and not to work, he would not have given them hands, but only mouths; and if he had created another class that would only have to work and not eat, he would not have given them mouths, but only hands.

Giuseppe Mazzini

To prove God is blasphemy; to deny it is madness.

Mark Twain

God lacks steadfastness of character and firm convictions. He should be a Catholic, or a Presbyterian, or something, it doesn't matter, but he shouldn't try to be everywhere at once.

When you read the Bible, you are more surprised by God's ignorance than by his omniscience.

God is fierce in the Old Testament and charming in the New - the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the sacred novel.

Is there a father who would want to torment his little one with undeserved stomach cramps, undeserved teething pains, and then mumps, measles, scarlet fever and thousands of other tortures invented for an innocent little creature? And then, from his youth to his grave, would he begin to torment him with countless ten-thousand-fold punishments for any violation of the law, both intentional and accidental? With the subtlest sarcasm we ennoble God with the title of father - and yet we know very well that if we had fallen into our hands with a father in his spirit, we would have immediately hanged him.

Mother Teresa

God didn't call me to be successful. He called me to be devoted.

Minucius Felix

The Christian god is able to raise the dead, but cannot help the living.

Henri de Monterlant

God will not enter into us while we are empty.

Charles Louis Montesquieu

If triangles created a god for themselves, he would have three sides.

William Somerset Maugham

A God who can be understood is no longer God.

I don't know why this is so, but religions never give God common sense.

Vladimir Nabokov

It is not guided tours that come to God, but lonely travelers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If gods existed, how could I bear that I am not a god?

All gods are symbols and intricacies of poets!

God is a kind of assumption.

You need to come to terms with the fact that God may not love you. Maybe he just hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen in life.

Blaise Pascal

By openly appearing to those who seek Him with all their hearts, and hiding from those who flee from Him with all their hearts, God regulates human knowledge of Himself. He gives signs that are visible to those who seek Him and invisible to those who are indifferent to Him. To those who want to see, He gives enough light. To those who do not want to see, He gives enough darkness.

Knowing God without awareness of our weakness produces pride. The consciousness of our weakness without the knowledge of Jesus Christ leads to despair. But the knowledge of Jesus Christ protects us from both pride and despair, for in Him we find both the awareness of our weakness and the only way to heal it.

The God of Christians is not only the God of geometric truths and elemental order; such is the God of the pagans and Epicureans. This is not only God, who provides for the life and earthly goods of people in order to give a number of happy years of life to those who worship Him: it is also the God of the Jews. But the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of Christians, is a God of love and consolation; This is God filling the souls and hearts faithful to Him, introducing into them a feeling of their helplessness and His infinite mercy, connecting with them in the depths of their souls, filling it with meekness, joy, hope, love, making them incapable of striving for anything other than Him. Himself.

The God of Christians is God, who makes the soul feel that He is its only good, that all its peace is in Him and its only joy is in love for Him; this is God, instilling in the soul at the same time hatred of the obstacles that delay it in its desire to love Him with all its might. Self-love and sensuality, which constitute these obstacles, are unbearable for the soul, and God makes it feel that self-love is deeply rooted in it and that He alone can heal it.

Let's weigh the gains and losses of betting that God exists. Let's take two cases: if you win, you win everything; if you lose, you won't lose anything. Therefore, do not hesitate to bet that He is.

Thomas Paine

The only idea of living beings that we can have is the idea of serving God.

Pablo Picasso

God is an artist just like other artists. He created a giraffe, an elephant and a cat. He doesn't have his own style. He just tries something different every time.

Plato

God always remains a geometer.

Plutarch

God is the hope of the brave, not the excuse of the coward.

Faina Ranevskaya

I believe in God, who exists in every person. When I commit good deed, I think this is the work of God.

Ernest Renan

Anything is possible - even God.

Jules Renard

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for his reputation if he didn't exist.

Istvan Szabo

If there is no God, why is he so missed?

George Saville

People would never believe in God unless they were allowed to believe in him incorrectly.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Respectable people believe in God so as not to talk about him.

Erik Satie

Why attack God? Perhaps he is as unhappy as we are.

I ended up believing that the Good God is just one of those eternal bastards that are so many running around me, from side to side. His unobtrusive, pretentious mercy... I see too well how he little by little crumbles and scatters it in different directions... but he does it reluctantly, and only in extreme cases.

Sextus Empiricus

God's millstones grind slowly, but produce excellent flour.

Lucius Seneca

What is God? - Everything you see and everything you don’t see.

Sergey Sergeev-Tsensky

God grows with those who wear it. God is a mystery if you can understand it!

Gilbert Sesbron

We unconsciously think that God sees us from above - but he sees us from the inside.

Silouan of Athos

Test yourself: One day ask God for love for your brother,
and the other - live without love, and then you will see the difference.

Lisa Simpson

I'm not a theologian. I don't know exactly who or what God is. I only know that he is more powerful than mom and dad combined.

Jan Zbigniew Slojewski

God doubted the existence of man.

Socrates

How less than a person necessary, the closer he is to the Gods.

Benedict Spinoza

All who have thought in any way about the Divine nature deny the corporeality of God. They prove it all the better that by body we mean a certain quantity that has length, width and depth and is limited by some specific figure; about God, an absolutely infinite being, nothing more meaningless can be said than this. But from the other ways in which they try to prove the same thing, it is clear that they completely remove the most corporeal or extended substance from the Divine nature and believe that it was created by God. By what kind of Divine power it could have been created, they do not know at all, and this clearly shows that they themselves do not understand what they are saying.

Others think that God is a free cause because he can, in their opinion, ensure that what, as we said, follows from his nature, that is, is in his power, does not happen, in other words, is not produced I wish they could. But this is the same as if they said that God can make it so that from the nature of a triangle it does not follow that its three angles are equal to two right angles, or that an effect does not follow from a given cause; and this is ridiculous.

By analogy with the means that they themselves usually prepare for themselves, they had to conclude that there is some ruler or rulers of nature, endowed with human freedom, who took care of everything for them and created everything for their use. The character of these rulers, since they had never heard anything about it, they had to judge by their own. As a result, they assumed that the Gods arrange everything for the benefit of people, so that people would be attached to them and give them the highest honors. The consequence was that everyone came up with their own various ways worship of God, so that God would love him more than others and make all nature serve the satisfaction of his blind passion and insatiable greed. In this way, this prejudice turned into superstition and took deep roots in the minds of people.

Julian Tuwim

Whoever speaks on behalf of God must present credentials.

Oscar Wilde

When the gods want to punish us, they listen to our prayers.

Feofan the Recluse

A gloomy, repulsive life is not God's life. When the Savior told those who were fasting to wash themselves, anoint their heads and comb their hair, he meant precisely so that they would not become gloomy.

Anatole France

The case is God's pseudonym when he does not want to sign his own name.

Robert Frost

Lord, forgive me my little jokes at Your expense, and I will forgive You the big joke You played on me.

Marina Tsvetaeva

What can we say about God? Nothing. What can we say to God? All.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

For treachery and moral depravity, the immortal gods usually become angry and angry with people.

Gilbert Chesterton

If there were no God, then there would be no atheists.

Anton Chekhov

Between “there is a God” and “there is no God” there lies a whole vast field, which a true sage traverses with great difficulty. A Russian person knows one of these two extremes, but the middle between them is not interesting to him, and he usually knows nothing or very little.

Emil Cioran

Korney Chukovsky

girl: There is a God, but of course I don’t believe in him.

God can be a father, he can be a judge, he can be a watchmaker of the universe, a mathematician, a demiurge, but what he definitely cannot be is a priest.

Albert Einstein

God doesn't play dice.

Our math difficulties don't bother God. He integrates empirically.

Before God, we are all equally wise - or equally foolish.

The Lord God is sophisticated, but not malicious.

Through coincidences, God maintains anonymity.

Ralph Emerson

The god of cannibals will be an ogre, the god of crusaders will be a crusader, and the god of merchants will be a merchant.

Lancelot Andrews

Susan Anthony

I don't trust those people who know so well what God wants from them, because I noticed that it always coincides with their own desires.

Epicurus of Samos

If God wants to prevent evil but cannot do so, then he is powerless
If he could do it, but does not want to, then he is filled with malice.
If he has both power and desire, then where does evil come from?
If he has neither strength nor desire, then why call him God?

David Hume

In affirming that God exists, we simply form the idea of Deity according to our idea of him, and do not represent the existence attributed to him in the form of a separate idea, which we would add to the idea of his other qualities.

Let the kings of the earth and all the nations, the princes and all the judges of the earth, the youths and maidens, the elders and youths, praise the name of the Lord, for the name […]

Let the kings of the earth and all the nations, the princes and all the judges of the earth, the young men and maidens, the elders and youths, praise the name of the Lord, for His alone is exalted, His glory is on earth and in heaven... (Ps. 148)

We present to our readers a selection of quotes from great figures of the past - scientists and diplomats, thinkers and writers, military leaders and sovereigns, doctors and playwrights - what they said about God, the Church he founded and the Holy Scriptures:

1. Poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

“There is a Book in which every word is interpreted, explained, preached to all ends of the earth, applied to all kinds of circumstances of life and events of the world; from which it is impossible to repeat a single expression that is not known by heart, which would not already be a proverb of peoples. This book is called the Gospel - and such is its eternally new charm that if we, satiated with the world or depressed by despondency, accidentally open it, we will no longer be able to resist its sweet attraction.”

2. Archbishop and surgeon Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky)

“We are accustomed to thinking that knowledge is stronger than the faith that underlies religion. But in fact, it is faith that imparts power to knowledge. Knowledge without confidence in it, without recognition, is dead information. You may know that the plane is capable of lifting you, but if you are not sure of this, you will never dare to board it. We know God the way scientists know electrons - by His manifestations, by His actions, by the outpouring of God's power on us, by the grace of God that we feel in our hearts.

Faith is unprovable. There were a lot of disputes, there were many attempts by some people to prove that God exists, and others - that God does not exist. And never throughout the history of mankind has anyone been able to convince their opponents, because it’s not a matter of evidence. It is impossible to prove the existence of God by reasoning. God can only be perceived with a pure heart. Science proves the necessity of God’s existence logically, aesthetics shows ideal existence in images, and religion connects and brings into communication with God.”

3. Generalissimo Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov

“Most Holy Mother of God, save us! Holy Father Nicholas, pray to God for us! - Without this prayer, do not draw your weapon, do not load your gun, do not start anything. Do you know the three sisters? Faith, Love and Hope. With them glory and victory. God is with them."

4. Prince Alexander Nevsky

“God is not in power, but in truth. Some with weapons, others on horses, but we will call on the Name of the Lord our God!”

5. Mathematician Blaise Pascal

“Only God can fill the vacuum in the heart of every person. Nothing created by man can fill this vacuum. Only God, whom we know through Jesus Christ, fills this void. Knowing God without knowing your sinfulness leads to pride. Knowing your sinfulness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ leads us to the right path, since in Him we find God and our sinfulness.”

6. Writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

“Be not dead souls, but living ones. There is only one door to life, and that door is Jesus Christ."

7. Surgeon Nikolai Pirogov

“I cannot hear without disgust the slightest hint about the absence of a creative plan and creative expediency in the universe, and therefore the existence of the Supreme Reason, and therefore the Supreme Creative Will, I consider a necessary and inevitable fatal requirement of my own mind. So, even if I now wanted not to recognize the existence of God, I could not do this without going crazy.”

8. Physicist Albert Einstein

“I believe in God as a Person and in all conscience I can say that I have never been an atheist for a single minute of my life. True, I am a Jew, but the radiant experience of Jesus of Nazareth made an amazing impression on me. No one expressed himself like He did. Indeed, there is only one place on earth where we do not see a shadow, and that Person is Jesus Christ. In Him God revealed himself to us in the clearest and most understandable way. I honor him."

9. Physicist Isaac Newton

“The Heavenly Lord rules the entire world as the Ruler of the universe. We marvel at Him because of His perfection, we honor Him and bow before Him because of His boundless power. From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety could arise; and everything corresponding to place and time, the diversity of created objects, which constitutes the structure and life of the universe, could have happened only through the thought and will of an original Being, Whom I call the Lord God.”

10. Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte

“Alexander the Great, Augustus Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself founded enormous empires. And on what basis did these creations of our genius take place? - Based on violence. Jesus Christ alone founded His empire with love... And rest assured that they were all real people, but none of them were like Him; Jesus Christ is more than a man. At a distance of one thousand eight hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a difficult demand that surpasses all other demands. He asks for the human heart."

11. Scientist Galileo Galilei

“Holy Scripture can never lie or err. Everything it says is absolutely immutable. Both it and nature were created by the divine Word: the Bible - according to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and nature - to fulfill Divine commands.

12. Physicist Max Planck

“Wherever we turn our gaze, whatever the subject of our observation, we nowhere find a contradiction between science and religion. We rather state their absolute harmony in the main points, especially in the field of natural science. Both religion and science ultimately seek the truth and come to the confession of God.

When religion and science profess belief in God, the former places God at the beginning and the latter at the end of all thoughts. Religion and science are in no way mutually exclusive.”

13. Biologist Louis Pasteur

“Descendants will one day laugh heartily at the stupidity of our contemporary materialist scientists. The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the inimitable deeds of the Creator.”

14. Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus

“My life, intertwined with patience, was one joy. Although before the greatness of God I must confess: Almighty! We do not comprehend Him. He is great in power, judgment and fullness of justice, but it seemed to me that I was following in the footsteps of God. I feel that my death is not far away, but this does not scare me. Almighty God will find another form of existence for my spirit, will lead me along the road of eternity, as he leads a wandering star through the darkness of infinity. I argued with people for the truth, but never with God, calmly awaiting the end of the time allotted to me.”

15. Poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe

“The Gospel reflects from itself the radiance emanating from the person of Christ. If God ever came to earth, it was only in the Person of Jesus Christ.”

16. Writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

“In adversity the truth becomes clear. I will tell you about myself that I am a child of the century, a child of disbelief and doubt to this day, and even (I know this) to the grave. What terrible torment this thirst to believe has cost me and is now costing me, which is the stronger in my soul, the more contrary arguments I have. And yet, God sometimes sends me moments in which I am completely calm; in these moments I love and find that I am loved by others, and in such moments I formed within myself a symbol of faith in which everything is clear and sacred to me. This symbol is very simple, here it is: to believe that there is nothing more beautiful, deeper, more sympathetic, more reasonable, more courageous and more perfect than Christ, and not only is there not, but with jealous love I tell myself that it cannot be. Moreover, if someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and it really were that the truth is outside Christ, then I would rather remain with Christ than with the truth. Christianity is the only refuge of the Russian land from all its evils.”

17. President Abraham Lincoln

“I have often bowed my knees before God, prompted by the strong conviction that to no one else could I turn in my need. I believe that the Bible is God's best gift to man. Everything beautiful from the Savior of the world is transmitted to us through this Book.”

18. Philosopher Vladimir Solovyov

“You just need to, before deciding to take any action, evoke the moral image of Christ in your soul, concentrate on it and ask yourself: could He have performed this act; or in other words, whether He approves of it or not, whether He blesses me to do it or not - and we will get the answer. I suggest this test to everyone, it will not deceive. In any doubtful case, if you only have the opportunity to come to your senses and think, remember Christ, imagine Him alive, as He is, and place the entire burden of your doubts on Him.”

19. Poet Taras Shevchenko

“Right now my only consolation is the Gospel. I read it daily and hourly."

20. Scientist Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

“Nature is in a sense the Gospel, loudly proclaiming the creative power, wisdom and greatness of God. And not only the heavens, but also the bowels of the earth preach the glory of God.”

21. Playwright William Shakespeare

“I have committed my soul into the hands of God, my Creator, and have absolutely unshakable faith in Jesus Christ, my Savior.”

22. Naturalist Carl Linnaeus

“The eternal, infinite, omniscient and omnipotent God passed me by. I did not see Him face to face, but the glimpse of the Divine filled my soul with silent wonder. I saw the trace of God in His creation; and everywhere, even in the smallest and most imperceptible of His works, what power, what wisdom, what indescribable perfection! I observed how animate beings, standing at the highest level, are connected with the kingdom of plants, and plants, in turn, with minerals that are in the depths of globe, and how the globe itself gravitates towards the sun and revolves around it in an invariable order, receiving life from it.”

23. Emperor Peter the Great

“Whoever does not believe in God is either crazy or naturally insane. A sighted person must know the Creator from his creations. He who forgets God and does not keep His commandments, despite all his work, will not have success and will receive little benefit.”

24. Prince Vladimir Monomakh

“First of all, for the sake of God and your soul, have the fear of God in your heart and give generous alms - this is the beginning of all good.”

25. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin

“Whoever has not found God on Earth will not find him in space.”

26. Poet George Byron

“If Man can be God and if God can be Man, then Jesus Christ was both.”

27. Publicist Heinrich Heine

“And what kind of book is this Bible! Majestic and vast as the world, rooted in the depths of the universe and rising to the mysterious azure of the skies! Truly, this is the Word of God, while all other books in the world express only their own, human art.”

28. Writer Charles Dickens

“I have surrendered my soul to the mercy of God in Christ the Savior.”

29. Naturalist Charles Darwin

“I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a Creator. Life had to be breathed into the first cell by the Creator.

The world rests on patterns and in its manifestations appears as a product of the mind - this is an indication of its Creator.”

30. Philosopher Immanuel Kant

“You do well to seek reassurance in the Gospel, because it is the inexhaustible source of all truth, which the mind will never find anywhere else.

The existence of the Bible is the greatest and highest blessing that mankind has ever experienced."

31. Philosopher Karl Jaspers

“The existence of God is so obvious that not believing in him is a sin, and it is so unobvious that believing in him is a merit.”

32. Philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev

“Belief in immortality is not only a comforting faith that makes life easier, it is also a terrible, terrible faith that aggravates life with immeasurable responsibility.

Without the great sacrament of repentance, spiritual life is unthinkable. Sin must not only be recognized, but also burned in the fire of repentance.”

33. Writer Jean Jacques Rousseau

“The words of the Bible fill me with wonder, the holiness of the Gospel speaks to my heart. Look at the books of philosophers, how insignificant they are compared to the Bible. Is it possible that such an amazing and at the same time simple book was the work of human hands?

34. Physicist Michael Faraday

“I am amazed why people choose to wander in the dark on so many important issues when God has given them such a wonderful book of Revelation”!?

35. Chemist Robert Boyle

“In comparison with the Bible, all human books are small planets that receive their light and brilliance from the Sun.”

36. Physicist Henri Marie Ampere

“The most convincing proof of the existence of God is the harmony of means by which order is maintained in the universe; thanks to this order, living beings find in their bodies everything necessary for the development and reproduction of their physical and spiritual abilities.”

37. Astronomer Johannes Kepler

“Great is our Lord and great is His power, And His wisdom has no end. Praise Him the sun, the moon and the stars and the planets - in whatever language the praise occurs. And also you, witnesses of His revealed truths, and you, my soul, sing honor and glory to the Lord all your life.”

38. Physicist Hans Oersted

“Every thorough investigation of nature ends with the recognition of the existence of God.”

39. Physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

“Don't be afraid to be free-thinking people. If you think deeply, through science you will gain faith in God.”

40. Historian Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev

“Consciousness precedes the embodiment of ideas. God- a great architect."

41. Philosopher Francis Bacon

“Superficial knowledge removes one from God; deep knowledge leads to God.”

42. Writer Francois Mauriac

“You don't have to have faith to pray; you need to pray to gain faith.”

43. Writer Clive Staples Lewis

“God speaks to man in a whisper of love, if he does not hear, then with the voice of conscience, if he does not hear, through the mouthpiece of suffering.

All events in the world are answers to prayers, in the sense that the Lord takes into account all our true needs. All prayers are heard, although not all are fulfilled.”

44. Writer John Tolkien

“The only cure for weakening and diminishing faith is the communion of the Holy Sacraments.”

45. Writer Ivan Turgenev

“Everything on earth is dust and decay, and blessed is he who cast anchor not into these bottomless waves! He who has faith has everything and cannot lose anything.”

46. Philosopher Ivan Ilyin

“Faith in God belongs to the deepest, most mysterious and spiritually precious states of man. This is a blessed experience of great spiritual and artistic value and vitality, which must be treasured, which must be protected and which should not be approached by cleverness and arbitrariness.”

47. Poet Vasily Zhukovsky

“God is positive goodness, positive truth, positive truth, positive beauty - everything that contradicts goodness, truth, beauty, truth is a negation of God. the foundation of all goodness, all truth, truth and beauty in the human soul is faith in God. From faith in God comes all goodness, all truth, all truth and beauty.”

48. Wanderer Grigory Skovoroda

“The Kingdom of God is within us. Happiness is in the heart, the heart is in love, and love is in the eternal law.”

49. Philosopher Semyon Frank

“Only faith unites, while unbelief disperses and atomizes human forces.”

50. Physicist James Joule

“After we have known and submitted to the Will of God, we have another important task: to comprehend His Wisdom, Power and Mercy from the evidences revealed in His works. Knowledge of the laws of nature is knowledge of God.”

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I asked God to take away my pride, and God answered me: - No! Pride is not taken away, it is abandoned.
I asked God to grant me patience, and God answered: - No! Patience is not given, but acquired through trials.
I asked God to grant me happiness, and God said: - No! A blessing is given, and it is up to you whether you will be happy or not. I asked God to save me from pain, and God said: - No! Suffering helps us remember God and draw closer to Him.
I asked for strength, and God sent me trials to strengthen me.
I asked for wisdom, and God sent me problems so that I could learn to solve them.
I asked God to teach me to love people just as He Himself loves me. “Now you understand what you need to ask for,” God answered and sent people to me who needed my help.
I didn't get anything I wanted, but I got everything I needed!

A university professor once asked his students this question: “Is everything that exists created by God?”
One student boldly responded, “Yes, created by God.”
“God created everything?” - asked the professor.
“Yes, sir,” the student replied.
The professor asked: “If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds determine us, then God is evil.”
The student became quiet when he heard this answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to the students that he had once again proven that belief in God is a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, “Can I ask you a question, professor?”
“Of course,” answered the professor. The student stood up and asked
“Professor, does cold exist?”
"What a question? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold?
The students laughed at the young man's question.
The young man replied,
“Actually, sir, there is no such thing as cold. According to the laws of physics, what we think of as cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied to see if it has or transmits energy. Absolute zero(-460 degrees Fahrenheit) there is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature. Cold doesn't exist. We created this word to describe how we feel when there is no heat."
The student continued. -
“Professor, does darkness exist?”
The professor replied,
"Of course it exists."
The student replied,
“You are wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study light, but not darkness. We can use a Newtonian prism to split white light into many colors and study the different wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple beam of light can break into a dark world and illuminate it. How can you know how dark any space is? You measure how much light is presented. Is not it? Darkness is a concept that humans use to describe what happens in the absence of light."
Finally, the young man asked the professor,
“Sir, does evil exist?” This time hesitantly, the professor replied,
“Of course, like I said. We see him every day. Cruelty between people, a lot of crime and violence around the world. These examples are nothing more than manifestations of evil."
To this the student replied,
“Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for himself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is similar to darkness and cold - a word created by man to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth.
Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in a person’s heart. It’s like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or like the darkness that comes when there is no light.”
The professor sat down.
The student's name was Albert Einstein.

Let the kings of the earth and all nations, princes and all judges of the earth, young men and maidens, elders and youths praise the name of the Lord, for His alone is exalted, His glory is on earth and in heaven... ()

Even outspoken atheists talk about this topic. Many of them, having denied both faith and God for a long time, under some circumstances suddenly changed their minds. Many great figures of the past - scientists and diplomats, thinkers and writers, military leaders and sovereigns, doctors and playwrights, including materialists - spoke with the deepest respect. Here is a small selection of their quotes...

Poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

Archbishop and surgeon Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky)

Generalissimo Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov

“Most Holy Mother of God, save us! Holy Hierarch Father Nicholas, pray to God for us! - Without this prayer, do not draw your weapon, do not load your gun, do not start anything. Do you know the three sisters? Faith, Love and Hope. With them glory and victory. God is with them."

Prince Alexander Nevsky

“God is not in power, but in truth. Some with weapons, others on horses, but we will call on the Name of the Lord our God!”

Mathematician Blaise Pascal

Writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

“Be not dead souls, but living ones. There is only one door to life, and that door is Jesus Christ."

Surgeon Nikolay Pirogov

Physicist Albert Einstein

Physicist Isaac Newton

Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte

Scientist Galileo Galilei

Physicist Max Planck

When religion and science profess belief in God, the former places God at the beginning and the latter at the end of all thoughts. Religion and science are in no way mutually exclusive.”

Biologist Louis Pasteur

“Descendants will one day laugh heartily at the stupidity of our contemporary materialist scientists. The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the inimitable deeds of the Creator.”

Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus

Poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe

“The Gospel reflects from itself the radiance emanating from the person of Christ. If God ever came to earth, it was only in the Person of Jesus Christ.”

Writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

“In adversity the truth becomes clear. I will tell you about myself that I am a child of the century, a child of unbelief and doubt to this day, and even (I know this) to the grave. What terrible torment this thirst to believe has cost me and is now costing me, which is the stronger in my soul, the more contrary arguments I have. And yet, God sometimes sends me moments in which I am completely calm; in these moments I love and find that I am loved by others, and in such moments I formed within myself a symbol of faith in which everything is clear and sacred to me. This symbol is very simple, here it is: to believe that there is nothing more beautiful, deeper, more sympathetic, more reasonable, more courageous and more perfect than Christ, and not only is there not, but with jealous love I tell myself that it cannot be. Moreover, if someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and it really were that the truth is outside Christ, then I would rather remain with Christ than with the truth. Christianity is the only refuge of the Russian land from all its evils.”

President Abraham Lincoln

Philosopher Vladimir Solovyov

“You just need to, before deciding to take any action, evoke the moral image of Christ in your soul, concentrate on it and ask yourself: could He have performed this act; or in other words, whether He will approve of it or not, whether He will bless me for doing it or not - and we will get the answer. I suggest this test to everyone, it will not deceive. In any doubtful case, if you only have the opportunity to come to your senses and think, remember Christ, imagine Him alive, as He is, and place the entire burden of your doubts on Him.”

Poet Taras Shevchenko

“Right now my only consolation is the Gospel. I read it daily and hourly."

Scientist Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

“Nature is in a sense the Gospel, loudly proclaiming the creative power, wisdom and greatness of God. And not only the heavens, but also the bowels of the earth preach the glory of God.”

Playwright William Shakespeare

“I have committed my soul into the hands of God, my Creator, and have absolutely unshakable faith in Jesus Christ, my Savior.”

Naturalist Carl Linnaeus

“The eternal, infinite, omniscient and omnipotent God passed me by. I did not see Him face to face, but the glimpse of the Divine filled my soul with silent wonder. I saw the trace of God in His creation; and everywhere, even in the smallest and most imperceptible of His works, what power, what wisdom, what indescribable perfection! I observed how animate beings, standing at the highest level, are connected with the kingdom of plants, and plants, in turn, with minerals that are in the bowels of the globe, and how the globe itself gravitates towards the sun and revolves around it in an invariable order, receiving life from him.”

Emperor Peter the Great

Prince Vladimir Monomakh

“First of all, for the sake of God and your soul, have the fear of God in your heart and give generous alms - this is the beginning of all good.”

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin

“Whoever has not found God on Earth will not find him in space.”

Poet George Byron

“If Man can be God and if God can be Man, then Jesus Christ was both.”

Publicist Heinrich Heine

Writer Charles Dickens

“I have surrendered my soul to the mercy of God in Christ the Savior.”

Naturalist Charles Darwin

“I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a Creator. Life had to be breathed into the first cell by the Creator.

The world rests on patterns and in its manifestations appears as a product of the mind - this is an indication of its Creator.”

Philosopher Immanuel Kant

“You do well to seek reassurance in the Gospel, because it is the inexhaustible source of all truth, which the mind will never find anywhere else.

The existence of the Bible is the greatest and highest blessing that mankind has ever experienced."

Philosopher Karl Jaspers

“The existence of God is so obvious that not believing in him is a sin, and it is so unobvious that believing in him is a merit.”

Philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev

“Belief in immortality is not only a comforting faith that makes life easier, it is also a terrible, terrible faith that aggravates life with immeasurable responsibility.

Without the great sacrament of repentance, spiritual life is unthinkable. Sin must not only be recognized, but also burned in the fire of repentance.”

Writer Jean Jacques Rousseau

Physicist Michael Faraday

“I am amazed why people choose to wander in the dark on so many important issues when God has given them such a wonderful book of Revelation”!?

Chemist Robert Boyle

“In comparison with the Bible, all human books are small planets that receive their light and brilliance from the Sun.”

Physicist Henri Marie Ampère

Astronomer Johannes Kepler

Physicist Hans Oersted

“Every thorough investigation of nature ends with the recognition of the existence of God.”

Physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

“Don't be afraid to be free-thinking people. If you think deeply, through science you will gain faith in God.”

Historian Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev

“Consciousness precedes the embodiment of ideas. God- a great architect."

Philosopher Francis Bacon

“Superficial knowledge removes one from God; deep knowledge leads to God.”

Writer Francois Mauriac

“You don't have to have faith to pray; you need to pray to gain faith.”

Writer Clive Staples Lewis

“God speaks to man in a whisper of love, if he does not hear, then with the voice of conscience, if he does not hear, through the mouthpiece of suffering.

All events in the world are answers to prayers, in the sense that the Lord takes into account all our true needs. All prayers are heard, although not all are fulfilled.”

Writer John Tolkien

“The only cure for weakening and diminishing faith is the communion of the Holy Sacraments.”

Writer Ivan Turgenev

“Everything on earth is dust and decay, and blessed is he who cast anchor not into these bottomless waves! He who has faith has everything and cannot lose anything.”

Philosopher Ivan Ilyin

Poet Vasily Zhukovsky

“God is positive good, positive truth, positive truth, positive beauty - everything that contradicts good, truth, beauty, truth is a negation of God. the foundation of all goodness, all truth, truth and beauty in the human soul is faith in God. From faith in God comes all goodness, all truth, all truth and beauty.”

Wanderer Grigory Skovoroda

“The Kingdom of God is within us. Happiness is in the heart, the heart is in love, and love is in the eternal law.”

Philosopher Semyon Frank

“Only faith unites, while unbelief disperses and atomizes human forces.”

Physicist James Joule

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God never plays dice with the Universe... Therefore, we should not bother ourselves with our problems...

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God created woman later - he did not want to listen to advice during the creation of man.

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God exists, but I don't believe in him...

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If you consider yourself a god, but at the same time you allowed yourself to say or do something unkind to someone today, today you will no longer become one.

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Love the Lord and do what you want.

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I'm God. You are God too. I differ from you only in that I realize that I am God, but you are completely unaware.

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There is an old proverb: God exists inside each of us, we just need to try to find him. I want you to understand: I didn’t even start looking.

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I will probably say blasphemy, but it seems to me that homosexuals are those people who even turn their butts to God...© zulnora

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Many people defend God without reading the Bible and not knowing who he is, they are ready to sacrifice their lives to prove something that may not exist!

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God created the world in six days. Truly, if you rush, you will make people laugh.

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If you are sitting on a cloud, this does not give you the right to be called God!

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Love is given to us from God; Fate is given to us from the devil.

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Wherever a Christian goes, he should bring joy.

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Love makes man God and God man...

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If they showed us God, we would not believe that it is he.

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Do you seriously think that there is a guy sitting in the clouds who will solve all your problems?!

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The world is the way we see it...

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Freedom is a coil of rope. God wants us to hang ourselves.

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I feel like a pencil in the hand of God. God writes with us, and writes well, even if we are an imperfect instrument.

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An atheist is a person who denies the existence of God, but in his soul begs to be forgiven...

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Thank God if you managed to live happy life without faith in him.

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The perfection of a person is manifested when he sees God in everything that his gaze falls on.

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God needs us. After all, he likes to feel the world with our palms.

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It doesn't matter whether you believe in God, but what matters is that God believes in you.

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Whoever God wants to punish, he first deprives him of his reason.

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I'm not God, I'm just learning, but I'm learning like God!)

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Don't be too bothered by people's temporary assessment of your current knowledge. We pass the most important exam with our whole life before God.

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GOD will punish you for her tears!

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When God adds years to your life, ask Him to add life to your years.

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Those who believe in God will face trials, and those who do not believe will face punishment. But this does not change the essence - a person will suffer in any case, regardless of whether he believes in God or not.

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God is close to us, but we are far away. God is inside, but we are outside.

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It is stupid to ask God for something that you can achieve yourself!

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Suicide is when a person comes to God without an invitation.

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If God gave it, then he knew that you could endure it.

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God is a DJ. Life is a dance floor. Love is a rhythm. You are music...

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Lord, how I want love!!! Hear my words!!!

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God is between us.

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The blind can see God, the deaf can hear God, and the dumb can talk to God.

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Then I learned that my past has nothing to do with my future.

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You talk to God - you are a believer, God talks to you - you are mentally ill.

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If fate does not appreciate you, turn to God for help and with God’s help it will become more generous!

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During Great Lent, abstinence should be not only in food, but also from any passion revealed by the tongue, the hand, and the shameless gaze.

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Christ could have been born a thousand times in Bethlehem - you would still have died if He was not born in your soul.

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Prayer is the music of the soul directed towards God.

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No, the soul is not emptiness, the soul is a light that shines brightly with God and fades with Satan...

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God is a humorist: if you don’t believe it, look at yourself in the mirror.

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If it seems to you that God is far from you, who do you think has moved away from whom?

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If you have GOD, then what are you afraid of? If you don't have GOD, what do you hope for?

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I will bow one knee to my beloved, and two to God.

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Look at yourself in the mirror. This is the best that God could come up with while searching for the most unique image!

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God gives opportunities. People choose their destiny from them.

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When God wants to drive a person crazy, he begins to fulfill all his desires.

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My coming into this world is the most wonderful and amazing event!!! I am God's gift to this world, and this world is God's gift to Me!!!

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God, who created us without us, cannot save us without us.

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It was not nails that held Jesus on the cross, but love, for you and for me...

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Has God blessed you with intelligence? So try to carry it with you, and not just brag about having it...

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If God comes first, then everything else will fall into place.

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Anyone who believes in God, as a rule, knows how to believe in himself, in his talent and in his capabilities.

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When God created man, Satan was no longer needed.

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Whoever is waiting for God to send him will definitely wait, and God will send him...

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If God hesitates, it does not mean that he refuses.

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A child is a message from God, made with love.

Aphorisms, statements about God

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