Martin Seligman Quotes

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the universal human conviction that there is more to life than life itself; that there is a 'god' shaped hole at the centre of our universe.

God gave us the mind so that we can know him.

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

God is best known in not knowing him.

Space is the stature of God.

God is not a dead equation!

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

Everyone's definition of what God means can vary. But music is something that really takes you to that - 'sublime' is a great word. That thing that is greater than we are. The beauty, the magic of the universe.

You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.'

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

What is the origin of God?

I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress, more fully revealing himself as humans gain the capacity to better understand.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.

God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.