Stoic Quotes on God and Gods
No form of God is conceivable.
Aristo of Chios
(Quoted by Cicero)
God has entrusted me with myself.
Fools are they who look for happiness, but are blind to divine signs.
The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul.
For nothing can be better for gods or men
Than to adore with hymns the Universal King.
For evils proceed from vice alone, but the Gods are of themselves the causes of good, and of whatever is advantageous; while, in the meantime, we do not admit their beneficence, but surround ourselves with voluntary evils.
How great Thou art,
The Lord supreme for ever and for aye!
No work is wrought apart from Thee, O God,
Or in the world, or in the heaven above,
Or on the deep, save only what is done
By sinners in their folly.
In our control is the most beautiful and important thing, the thing because of which even the god himself is happy— namely, the proper use of our impressions … we must concern ourselves absolutely with the things that are under our control and entrust the things not in our control to the universe.
Quotes by Ancient Stoics
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