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title: "28 Relation God Quotes by 25 authors"
description: "Browse 28 Relation God quotes by 25 authors. Discover the best Relation God sayings and thoughts."
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> [“Our relation to God is not a "religious" relationship ... but ... a new life in "existence for others.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-bonhoeffer/our-relation-to-god-is-not-a-religious-relationship-but-a-new-life-in/)

[D Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-bonhoeffer/)

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> [Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/not-only-then-has-each-man-his-individual-relation-to-god-but-each/)

[George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/)

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> [“There is not other relation to God save that which appears upon the road along which Job travelled.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/there-is-not-other-relation-to-god-save-that-which-appears-upon-the/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

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> [“The "heart", in the biblical sense, is not the inward life, but the whole man in relation to God.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-bonhoeffer/the-heart-in-the-biblical-sense-is-not-the-inward-life-but-the-whole/)

[D Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-bonhoeffer/)

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> [It doesn't matter what your Religion is, it's about your Relation to God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/it-doesn-t-matter-what-your-religion-is-it-s-about-your-relation-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/man-is-to-be-understood-only-in-his-relation-to-god/)

[C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/)

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> [To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/to-be-religious-is-to-have-one-s-attention-fixed-on-god-and-on-one-s/)

[C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/)

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> [“The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-barrett/the-more-severely-he-struggles-to-hold-on-to-the-primal-face-to-face/)

[William Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-barrett/)

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> [The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/the-relation-of-this-god-with-this-man-the-relation-of-this-man-with/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

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> [Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-moore-cross/israel-defined-its-god-and-its-relation-to-that-god-in-existential/)

[Frank Moore Cross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-moore-cross/)

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> [“Sovereignty means exercising kingly power. We use the word in relation to God meaning that there is absolutely nothing that he does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graeme-goldsworthy/sovereignty-means-exercising-kingly-power-we-use-the-word-in-relation/)

[Graeme Goldsworthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graeme-goldsworthy/)

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> [Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-watts/vice-and-virtue-chiefly-imply-the-relation-of-our-actions-to-men-in/)

[Isaac Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-watts/)

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> [Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aelred-of-rievaulx/charity-may-be-a-very-short-word-but-with-its-tremendous-meaning-of/)

[Aelred of Rievaulx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aelred-of-rievaulx/)

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> [“As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/as-scientific-truths-put-us-in-an-intelligent-relaton-with-the-cosmos/)

[Fulton J. Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/)

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> [“Unregenerate men perform many actions, good so far as their external relations to their fellow-men are concerned. But love to God is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander-hodge/unregenerate-men-perform-many-actions-good-so-far-as-their-external/)

[Archibald Alexander Hodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander-hodge/)

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> [One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/radhanath-swami/one-who-loves-god-sees-everything-in-relation-to-god-therefore-their/)

[Radhanath Swami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/radhanath-swami/)

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> [“I am called to live in perfect relation to God so that my life produces a longing after God in other lives,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-chambers/i-am-called-to-live-in-perfect-relation-to-god-so-that-my-life/)

[Oswald Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-chambers/)

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> [“for I thought there was a relation between God and the soul as yet unknown. On this theme the mind can reason…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lew-wallace/for-i-thought-there-was-a-relation-between-god-and-the-soul-as-yet/)

[Lew Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lew-wallace/)

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> [The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-psychoanalysis-of-individual-human-beings-however-teaches-us-with/)

[Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/)

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> [“It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to believe ... the relation of the Church to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-bonhoeffer/it-is-only-by-living-completely-in-this-world-that-one-learns-to/)

[D Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-bonhoeffer/)

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> [“Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/then-faith-s-paradox-is-this-that-the-single-individual-is-higher/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [“The historical emphasis upon the individual has been at the expense of the associative and symbolic relationship that must in fact uphold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-nisbet/the-historical-emphasis-upon-the-individual-has-been-at-the-expense/)

[Robert A. Nisbet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-nisbet/)

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> [“To produce something new is always a gamble, and God’s creation of man in His image and after His likeness involved a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophrony-sakharov/to-produce-something-new-is-always-a-gamble-and-god-s-creation-of-man/)

[Sophrony Sakharov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophrony-sakharov/)

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> [The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-name-of-the-most-holy-trinity-is-in-a-certain-way-impressed-upon/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [“...Calvinism has a sharply-defined starting-point of its own for the three fundamental relations of all human existence: viz., our relation to God,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-kuyper/calvinism-has-a-sharply-defined-starting-point-of-its-own-for-the/)

[Abraham Kuyper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-kuyper/)

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> [“Just as it is by His goodness that God gives being to beings, so also it is by His goodness that He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etienne-gilson/just-as-it-is-by-his-goodness-that-god-gives-being-to-beings-so-also/)

[Étienne Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etienne-gilson/)

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> [In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-weil/in-relation-to-god-we-are-like-a-thief-who-has-burgled-the-house-of-a/)

[Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-weil/)

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> [“Fellowship with God is what human beings are for. That is, we flourish as human beings if we live in free and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-webster/fellowship-with-god-is-what-human-beings-are-for-that-is-we-flourish/)

[John Webster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-webster/)

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                        "text": "“...Calvinism has a sharply-defined starting-point of its own for the three fundamental relations of all human existence: viz., our relation to God, to man, and to the world. For our relation to God: an immediate fellowship of man with Eternal, independently of priest or church. For the relation of man to man: the recognition in each person of human worth, which is his by virtue of his creation after the Divine likeness, and therefore of the equality of all men before God and his magistrate. And for our relation to the world: the recognition that in the whole world the curse is restrained by grace, that the life of the world is to be honored in its independence, and that we must, in every domain, discover the treasure and develop the potencies hidden by God in nature and in human life.”",
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                        "text": "“Just as it is by His goodness that God gives being to beings, so also it is by His goodness that He makes causes to be causes, thus delegating to them a certain participation in His actuality. Or rather, since causality flows from actuality, let us say that He confers the one in conferring the other, so that to the Christian mind the physical world in which we live offers a face which is the reverse of its physicism itself, a face where all that was read on the one side in terms of force, energy and law, is now read, on the other in terms of participations and analogies of the Divine Being. The Christian world takes on the character of a sacred world with a relation to God inscribed in its very being and every law that rules its functioning.”",
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