God Quote by André Gide — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The color of truth is grey.”

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”

“God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.”

“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”

“Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.”

“The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions.”

“But somehow, once you start playing behind the steering wheel of God, you realize just how powerful it is to be the imagination driving the natural world (64).”

“We might note Saint Ignatius’ ideal that only God knows what he would accomplish in souls were he not hindered in the process.”

“There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.”

“God is perhaps full of hatred and hateful, incomprehensible and contradictory; but the more hideous is his face, the more he asserts his power. His greatness is his incoherence. His proof is his inhumanity. One must spring into him and by this leap free oneself from rational illusions.”

“Man is and remains a transcendent being, that is, he is that existent to whom the silent and”

“The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.”