Pliny the Elder Quotes

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.

The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.

I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

For me, I believe in God, God is real.

The virtue of Love is nothing and all, or that Nothing visible out of which All Things proceed. Its power is through All Things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as God.

God is unlimited and infinite with respect to time; He is eternal. God is unlimited and unaffected by space; He is present everywhere at the same time.

Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

We live our little life; but Heaven is above us and all around and close to us; and Eternity is before us and behind us; and suns and stars are silent witnesses and watchers over us. We are enfolded by Infinity.

We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

For those who believe in God the matter is simpler still and clearly than anything else: because those who believe in God believe that God is the Creator of the whole Universe and there is nothing that does not come from Him.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

I'm not God - but I am something similar.

When I'm asked to define God, I'm almost wordless.

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.

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.