Emile Durkheim Quotes

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

As human beings, we anthropomorphize way too much. God's not a person. God, for me, is a power that lies outside the definition of time and space.

The writer must be a transcendent, not immanent, deity.

The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition.

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.

It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.

The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.

Though we are not Almighty God Himself, nevertheless, we are now divine.

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.

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.

Everybody has a different definition of the good side.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

This is beginning to sound more like a canonization hearing than a confirmation hearing.

The foundations of society have cracked as a result of the revolutionary reforms....The definitions and boundary lines of good and evil have disappeared.

Even an infant king must not be despised from an idea that he is a mere mortal; for he is a great deity in human form.

God's name is not considered good at the banks

How little people know who think holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible.