I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.