--- title: "7 God Ideal Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 7 God Ideal quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best God Ideal sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba1/bill-yarrow-89708_aphorisms_god-is-man-squared-that-is-to-say-god-is_1169470.jpg" --- > [“• God is man squared. That is to say, God is man raised to a higher power. • Man is the root,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-yarrow/god-is-man-squared-that-is-to-say-god-is-man-raised-to-a-higher-power/) [Bill Yarrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-yarrow/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba1/bill-yarrow-89708_aphorisms_god-is-man-squared-that-is-to-say-god-is_1169470.jpg) > [Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/blessed-is-he-who-carries-within-himself-a-god-an-ideal-and-who-obeys/) [Louis Pasteur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-pasteur/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/570/louis-pasteur-3151_action_blessed-is-he-who-carries-within-himself_1346062.png) > [Everybody understands that the basis of being a Christian is that everyone has fallen short of God's ideal. Everyone understands that. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-holmes/everybody-understands-that-the-basis-of-being-a-christian-is-that/) [Anna Holmes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-holmes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/anna-holmes-51345_bases_everybody-understands-that-the-basis-of_1355345.jpg) > [“Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/progress-is-the-goal-the-ideal-is-the-type-what-is-this-ideal-it-is/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fb/victor-hugo-32_excellence_progress-is-the-goal-the-ideal-is-the-ty_1439138.jpg) > [“They have never bothered to think the matter out for themselves, but have heard about Him from others, and have put belief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-w-tozer/they-have-never-bothered-to-think-the-matter-out-for-themselves-but/) [A.W. Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-w-tozer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2b/a-w-tozer-1151_faith_they-have-never-bothered-to-think-the-ma_1777541.jpg) > [Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-parker/justice-is-the-idea-of-god-the-ideal-of-man-the-rule-of-conduct-writ/) [Theodore Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-parker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44d/theodore-parker-4457_ideals_justice-is-the-idea-of-god-the-ideal-of_2270509.jpg) > [Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-pasteur/blessed-is-he-who-carries-within-himself-a-god-an-ideal-and-obeys-it/) [Louis Pasteur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-pasteur/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a0/louis-pasteur-3151_blessed_blessed-is-he-who-carries-within-himself_2744289.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/god-ideal/#itemlist", "name": "God Ideal Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“•\tGod is man squared. That is to say, God is man raised to a higher power. •\tMan is the root, the square root, of God. •\tWe believe in the ideal (truth, wisdom, justice, honor, integrity, selflessness, sacrifice, compassion, goodness) and God is the name we give to that ideal. •\tWhat else is God but a heuristic for what we want to do with our lives? •\tThe worship of God is the worship of perfection. The perfection of space: infinity. The perfection of time: eternity. The perfection of power: omnipotence. The perfection of knowledge: omniscience. 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