Man needs to believe in something. There are different situations in life, and even those who rely only on themselves, from time to time need support in the form of a higher mind, a powerful being that is not visible, but its forces are unlimited. So myths, legends, gods and religions appear. People cannot prove their existence, but quotes about God come up here and there, proving each time that the role of the Creator in human life is quite large.
Answer to the question
Does God really exist? Unfortunately, neither science nor religion can unequivocally answer this question. And here it is not that their arguments are erroneous or incorrect. Just everyone has to answer this question for themselves. Religion (and with it God) has always been imposed on people by society, which was originally wrong.
Quotes about God only show how other people see and understand him, and whether he exists or not is already an individual choice of everyone.
Surveys have shown that approximately 90% of the world's population believes in the existence of higher powers. These 90% included not only dreamers, humanists, writers and philosophers - there are many scientists, candidates of sciences, and doctors. In a word, even people who are duty-bound to operate on dry facts believe in the existence of the Almighty.
Jean-Paul Sartre said that in the soul of every person there is a hole the size of God, and everyone fills it with what he can. Simply put, every person needs God, but what he will be like depends on many factors. Here is the answer to the question of whether God exists or not.
What is he like?
From quotes about God, you can find out how different people represent him - from writers to scientists. For example, it is believed that God cannot be understood. His actions are beyond the limits of human logic, and no one can ever foresee His actions and motives. A being that can be understood cannot be called a supernatural or higher mind. It may be indecently wise and powerful, but if it acts according to the laws of existing logic, there is nothing divine in it.
Giuseppe Mazzini claims that it is ridiculous to prove or disprove the existence of the Lord:
Proving God is sacrilege; to deny it is insanity.
It is just as absurd to make assumptions about what he looks like, what he dresses up, etc. God should not be perceived not as a creature of flesh and blood, but as a shapeless and invisible mind that silently watches what happens from time to time makes adjustments.
And here is what Dietrich Bonhoeffer said about the Creator:
A God who allows us to ascertain our existence would not be God, but an idol.
Examining quotes of great people about God, we can come to the unequivocal conclusion that He will never allow people to prove their own existence. If we assume that the hypothesis of His existence is true, then we can say the following: God exists as information. In turn (as physicists have long proven) information is energy. That is, in the Universe there is a certain information flow uniting everything that exists, and each person is a part of it, which explains a lot.
True, people believe that this explanation is devoid of romance, mysticism and too boring. Therefore, most quotes about God are filled with spirituality, philosophy and deep meaning.
Voltaire:
If God did not exist, he should be invented.
Woody Allen:
If it turned out that God exists, I would not consider him evil. The worst that can be said about him is that he does less than he could if he tried.
Gilbert Sesbronn:
We unconsciously think that God sees us from above - but he sees us from the inside.
In order not to violate the general composition of mysticism, religiosity and spirituality, we continue to consider quotes of great people about God in the same spirit.
From the pages of the Bible
If a person wants to know what God is and what He does, the ordinary Bible can be the first source of knowledge. Quotes from the Bible about God most subtly notice who He is and what can be expected from Him.
Because God, who commanded the light to shine from darkness, illumined our hearts in order to enlighten us with the knowledge of the glory of God.
I, I am the Lord, and there is no Savior except Me.
If we love each other, then God abides in us.
In addition to these statements, one can recall another quote from the Gospel of Matthew (6: 26-30), which states that God is always there and ready to help. Therefore, do not be discouraged and worried about tomorrow:
Look at the birds of the sky: they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather in the granaries; and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than them? And about clothes, what do you care? Look at the field lilies, how they grow: neither work nor spin; but I tell you that Solomon in all his glory did not dress like any of them; if the grass of the field, which is today, and tomorrow will be thrown into the oven, God dresses like that, if more so than you, of little faith!
Indeed, such words are encouraging. Is man, the highest creation of God, worse than birds and flowers? Of course not. It's just that a person’s requests are much more serious, and he must fulfill most of his desires independently, and God will provide the base in the form of food and clothing. But such an interpretation does not suit many.
Resentment
For some reason, people believe that God must fulfill all their desires like a genie from a lamp. They depict faith: they constantly go to church, declare themselves to be furious fanatics of faith. But when problems happen in their lives, they do absolutely nothing to solve them. Such people believe that God will help them, and continue to stubbornly ignore difficult situations. And time goes on and nothing is solved magically, so people stop believing, become embittered and offended. In some quotes and aphorisms about God it is clearly visible what people who are offended by God think.
Here's what Chuck Palahniuk said about this:
Maybe people are just home crocodiles that God lowered into the toilet?
All that God does is keep an eye on us and kill us when we mortally get tired of living. We must try not to get tired.
“Why can't all people just be happy?” - I do not know this. Maybe because then the Lord God would be bored? - No. Not therefore. - But why? - Because he is afraid. - Fears? What? - If everyone were happy, no God would be needed.
In the last quotation, the truth known to everyone is revealed: a person recalls God only when he is ill. If a person is happy, he simply has here and now, he enjoys the moment, and does not even remember any God. But once another trouble happens, he immediately begins to remember half-forgotten prayers and go to church with enviable constancy.
Sergey Minaev:
People in our time remember God in the most difficult moments - when the wife leaves, the parents die or do not give a mortgage … On the other hand, even we, the little bastards stuffed with modern technology, need someone in charge, the last one to appeal to. Even without hope of help. Just knowing that He is - and that’s it.
Man really needs support in the form of a higher power, which will act in justice. But nowadays, more and more people are faced with the problem of faith.
About faith
Recently, one can increasingly hear the assumption that faith is a thing of the past. Modern man must abandon it. Then he will not be constrained by anything, he will begin to live for his pleasure and cease to worry about life after death, because it simply does not exist. It is difficult to say whether such an assumption is logical, because in everyday life we encounter faith at every step: we believe in the existence of the world visible to us, in ourselves and the people around us. Even those who beat themselves in the chest with a fist and solemnly proclaims: “I am an atheist!” Also believe, believe that nothing supernatural exists.
Yes, by and large, each of us believes! Were we not guided in our youth by hopes for a brighter future, stepping on the threshold of adulthood ?! Faith inspired us and made us stronger. Even starting a business, we are sure of success. Well, or at least we hope that it will be so. We can say that this is an ordinary everyday faith, and it has nothing to do with Christianity. But did not this faith inspire the fathers and ministers of the Church?
Quotes about God and faith with meaning convey its true essence. Judge for yourself.
Sergey Bulgakov, Russian philosopher:
Faith is a way of knowing without evidence.
Ramon de Campoamor, Spanish poet, philosopher, playwright and public figure:
My faith is so deep that I praise the Lord, even though he gave me life.
Martti Larni, Finnish writer and journalist:
Many believe in God, but few believe in God.
Faith is a living and unwavering assurance of the existence of an invisible God. Theologians assure that this is a hot impulse and a strong desire of a person to know his Lord and become closer to him.
God works in mysterious ways
A lot of interest is caused by disputes about how God acts. Each person in his own way understands his affairs. People understand the words from the Bible differently, they try to find hidden meanings between the lines and find those truths that are suitable only for them, what to speak of actions. In this matter, it is worth paying tribute to the words of Al Pacino:
As a child, I prayed to God for a bicycle … then I realized that God works differently … I stole a bicycle and began to pray to God for forgiveness.
Of course, in this quote about God, the great actor went too far with sarcasm. But if you think about it, then in some ways he is right - material things do not fall from heaven. In the same way, a person cannot wake up in the morning bold, strong and wise. People improve in the process of life, the more they overcome obstacles, the stronger they become.
Therefore, you need to carefully make wishes, because they can come true. If we assume that the quote: “God sees and hears everything” is an unbreakable axiom, then before you speak, complain, or ask for something, you need to think a hundred times. God will help, but hardly anyone will like his methods. Mother Teresa of Calcutta said that God never gave her what she asked, but at the same time she received what she needed:
I asked for strength - and God sent me trials to temper me.
I asked for wisdom - and God sent me problems over which I need to rack my brains.
I asked for courage - and God sent me danger.
I asked for love - and God sent the unfortunate who need my help.
I asked for blessings - and God gave me opportunities.
Many people think that if they believe in God, they will get what they want. Yes, indeed, they will be able to achieve any goal, but this will require efforts. In a person’s life circumstances will develop favorably, new opportunities will appear that can be used with advantage.
Of course, there will be obstacles that need to be overcome with dignity. And only thanks to these events can a person achieve what he wants. Here is what Mohammed Ali said about this:
God will not shoulder a burden on a person that this person cannot bear.
Every obstacle a person encounters is surmountable. There is no computer game that cannot be completed, and there is no problem that cannot be solved. This simple truth must be remembered by every person once and for all: no matter what happens, he will cope. Just sometimes you need to make a little more effort and spend more time.
Faith and Science
Scientists are also not alien to religion. Only many of them do not believe that God is able to reward and punish, do not believe that this is a personified entity. They do not believe that a person needs decent religion and fear of heavenly punishment for decent behavior. Behavior should be based on education, empathy and self-esteem, in this regard, religion does not play any role.
In simple terms, scientists did not so much detract from the power of the divine essence, as they tried to logically indicate its true place and purpose in this world. Those who were far from science made religion the basis of everything, even those things that exist without its intervention, but depend solely on human sanity. Quotes from scholars about God only confirm these assumptions.
Albert Einstein:
What you read about my religious beliefs is, of course, a lie. A lie that is systematically repeated. I do not believe in God as a person and never hid it, but expressed it very clearly. If there is something in me that can be called religious, then this is undoubtedly endless admiration for the structure of the universe to the extent that science reveals it. The idea of a personified deity has never been close to me and seems rather naive.
Paul Dirac:
If you do not cheat, and this is the duty of a scientist, then we must admit that religions express clearly false statements for which there is no justification in reality. After all, the very concept of “God” is already a product of human imagination … I don’t see that recognition of the omnipotent God somehow helped us … If in our time someone else preaches religion, it is not because religious beliefs continue to convince us; no, at the heart of everything lies the desire to calm the people, ordinary people. Calm people are easier to manage than troubled and unhappy. They are easier to use or operate. Religion is a kind of opium that people give to lull him with sweet fantasies, thus comforting him about the oppressing injustices.
Lev Davidovich Landau:
There is virtually no major physicist who is not an atheist. Of course, their atheism is not militant, but calmly gets along with the most benevolent attitude towards religion.
Stephen Hawking
Hawking's quotes about God take on a peculiar meaning. In many ways, he criticized what is written in the Bible. In particular, he did not believe that the universe was created by God. In addition, there is no need for a divine being, because just as fire can burn on its own, so the universe can function independently. Stephen Hawking did not believe in God, the God that Christianity speaks of. But he was interested in the laws of the universe, and if it could be called God, then he was definitely the most important believer:
God could not create the Universe in seven days, since he did not have time, because before the Big Bang there was no time.
Since there is such a force as gravity, the Universe could and has created itself out of nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason why the universe exists, why we exist. There is no need for God to “light” a fire and make the universe work.
Perhaps I believe in God, if by God you mean the embodiment of the forces that govern the universe.
What a person does not know how to value
The debate about God will go on forever. But in fact, His presence or absence does not play a big role when a person does not know how to appreciate the little joys of life. It’s not difficult to pick up those who take the soul with the meaning of quotes about God. Here is at least a statement by Johnny Welch:
If the Lord God had given me some life, I probably would not have said everything that I think; I would think more about what I'm saying.
I would value things not by their value, but by their importance. I would sleep less, dream more, realizing that every minute with my eyes closed is a loss of sixty seconds of light.
I would walk when others abstain from this, I would wake up when others are sleeping, I would listen when others speak.
And how I would enjoy chocolate ice cream!
If the Lord gave me a little life, I would simply dress, rise with the first ray of the sun, exposing not only the body, but also the soul.
Oh my god, if I had some more time, I would draw at the stars, like Van Gogh, dreamed, reading Benedetti's poems, and Serra’s song would be my moon serenade.
My God, if I had a little life … I would not miss a day not to tell my beloved people that I love them. I would convince every woman and every man that I love them, I would live in love with love.
I would prove to people how wrong they are, thinking that when they get old they stop loving: on the contrary, they get old because they stop loving!
I would give wings to a child and teach myself to fly.
I would teach old people that death does not come from old age, but from oblivion.
Sometimes people are extremely difficult to understand. They can argue for hours about whether God is or is not, but not notice how ingloriously their life swims through their fingers. The constantly murmuring human centipede is scurrying through the streets of the faceless city, offering prayers to heaven and cursing at the same time all that exists. They believe in God, but too blindly, so blindly that their faith turns into resentment and bitterness.
Drowning in the darkness of blind and weak-willed faith, a person performs standard actions and does not notice anything around. But so many things are left unattended. When the first flowers appear on apricot trees, they look like stars in the night sky. Stars that you can touch and smell. You can look at flowering trees forever.
The smell of lilac and freshly mowed grass, the taste of chocolate milk, the swallows scurrying under the azure dome of the sky … The first spring rain, the joy of long-awaited meetings, the smiles of friends … Traveling to other cities and countries, interesting books, exciting adventures, unforgettable emotions from a balloon ride … This is only a small list of those things that a person considers ordinary and not requiring attention. If God is, then he definitely lives in the beauty of the world, in the joyful smiles of friends and the happy laugh of loved ones.
Each of the existing religions preaches its ideals, each god creates his own rules. Но если Бог – это тот, кто создал человека по образу и подобию своему, разве он не хотел бы, чтобы его творения были счастливыми?!
