Beneficent Quotes

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. - Bob Dylan

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. - Bertrand Russell

What! that which is made in ornaments and which in contention is unable to make plain speech! / And they make the angels-- them who are the servants of the Beneficent God-- female (divinities). What! did they witness their creation? Their evidence shall be written down and they shall be questioned. - Quran

What! has He taken daughters to Himself of what He Himself creates and chosen you to have sons? / And when one of them is given news of that of which he sets up as a likeness for the Beneficent God, his face becomes black and he is full of rage. - Quran

What! could they not see that it did not return to them a reply, and (that) it did not control any harm or benefit for them? / And certainly Haroun had said to them before: O my people! you are only tried by it, and surely your Lord is the Beneficent God, therefore follow me and obey my order. - Quran

What if we truly believed there is a God -- a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow, and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax? - Marianne Williamson

There is no one in the heavens and the earth but will come to the Beneficent God as a servant. - Quran

Then We will most certainly draw forth from every sect of them him who is most exorbitantly rebellious against the Beneficent God. - Quran

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power. - Carol P. Christ