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God Quotes by Martin Buber
- God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
- From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother. That Christianity has regarded and does regard him as God and Savior has…
- One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.
- How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs…
- Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now…
- When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act…
- God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.
- God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
- The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there…
- The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.
- And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.
- When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
- To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world…
- One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table…
- There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.
- God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?
- God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi