Existence Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Download Open image “A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Existence God Life Prove
. A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Abraha Lincon Copy Share Image
An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry. — William Bernard Ullathorne Copy Share Image
What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol. — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
If we must “feel” God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making… — Craig S. Keener Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The church can only defend its own space by fighting, not for space, but for the salvation of the world. Otherwise the church becomes… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. When… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“There is only one church, the church of faith ruled by the word of Jesus Christ alone. This is the true catholic church that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“As Christians, we needn’t be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments.… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
