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God Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing…
- I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever…
- Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.
- They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in…
- I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I…
- That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most…
- Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.
- Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree…
- And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and…
- You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking-- this is why: I hear…
- I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and…
- And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and…
- I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself…
- God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly…
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