Epictetus Quotes on God (10 Quotes)

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

God has entrusted me with myself.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry 'I used to be angry every day, then every other day next, every two, then every three days' and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.

When you have closed your doors, and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone God is within, and your genius is withinand what need have they of light to see what you are doing.

God has delivered yourself to your care, and says I had no fitter to trust than you

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.

When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room, remember, never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone, but God is within, and your genius is within

God has made all men to be happy.

So when the crisis is upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonistthat you may prove a victor at the Great Games. Yet without toil or sweat this may not be.

Were I a nightingale, I would sing like a nightingale were I a swan, like a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must sing hymns of praise to god.