God (n.) is not to be worshiped with sacrifices and blood ; for what pleasure can He have in the slaughter of the innocent? but with a pure mind, a good and honest purpose. Temples are not to be built for Him with stones piled on high ; God is to be consecrated in the breast of each.
God (n.) is his own necessity: the same course must seem right to the one to whom only the best course can seem right, and that makes him no less free.
God (n.) is the intelligence of the universe, all that you see and all that you do not see.
God (n.) differs from us in having nothing apart from mind: he is nothing but reason.
God (n.) is not a busy servant arranging omens for some and entrails for others: to make him so is to give him a trivial job.
God (n.) cannot change his mind, which is truer for him than for the wise man: a wise man knows what is best at the moment, but everything is present to god's nature.
God (n.) can be called by any name: fate because everything depends on him, providence because he provides, nature because all is born of him, the world because he himself is all you see.
God (n.) cannot change the course of destiny, for it is the law he has imposed on himself: God is his own necessity.
God (n.) has no property, wears no bordered robe, and carries all things on his own shoulders — so money, office and slaves cannot make you his equal.
God (n.) is near you, with you, within you: a holy spirit dwells in us, marking our good and bad deeds — and as we treat it, so it treats us.
God (n.) is to the universe what the soul is to man; world-matter is its mortal body — so let the lower serve the higher.
God (n.) is near you, with you, inside you — there is no need to raise your hands to heaven or whisper in the ear of a statue.
God (n.) is worshipped by those who truly know Him.
God (n.) and man share one nature, distinct only by immortality: in God, Nature perfects the good; in man, pains and study do.
God (n.) comes to men; nay, he comes nearer,—he comes into men.
God (n.) is the witness of our souls, who comes into the very midst of our thoughts - as one who may at any time depart.
God (n.) is this whole universe that encompasses us; we are his associates and his members.
God (n.) escapes the eye and is seen only by thought; that without which nothing exists is the very thing we cannot know.
God (n.) is the mind of the cosmos — all that you see and all that you do not see.