Quotes about God

„God is the source of my supply. His riches flow to me freely, copiously, and abundantly. All my financial and other needs are met at every moment of time and point of space; there is always a divine surplus.“

—  Joseph Murphy American writer 1898 - 1981

„As ambassadors of Jesus Christ, Christians have no choice but to join the movement of liberation on the side of the poor, fighting against the structures of injustice. Faith in Jesus Christ, therefore, is not only an affirmation that we utter in Sunday worship and at other church gatherings. Faith is a commitment, a deeply felt experience of being called by the Spirit of Christ to bear witness to God's coming liberation by fighting for the freedom of the poor now.“

—  James H. Cone American theologian 1938 - 2018

Source: Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology (1986), p. v

„We have no more thought of using our own powers to escape the arm of authorities than had the Apostles of old. No more are we ready to keep silent at man's behest when God commands us to speak. For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.“

—  Martin Niemöller German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor 1892 - 1984

Last sermon before being imprisoned by the Nazi regime of Germany (27 June 1937), as quoted in Religion in the Reich (1939) by Michael Power, p. 142

„Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, whatever increases the authority of the body over the mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may seem in itself.“

—  Susanna Wesley Mother of Methodism 1669 - 1742

Letter to John Wesley, June 8, 1725

„Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.“

—  Ronald Reagan American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989) 1911 - 2004

„Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50-50 maybe.“

—  Steve Jobs American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955 - 2011

Quoted by his biographer, Walter Isaacson http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/steve-jobs-in-the-end-he-didnt-like-the-off-switch/61586?tag=nl.e589
2010s
Context: Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50-50 maybe. But ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it more. And I find myself believing a bit more. I kind of – maybe it’s ’cause I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear. The wisdom you’ve accumulated. Somehow it lives on, but sometimes I think it’s just like an on-off switch. Click and you’re gone. And that’s why I don’t like putting on-off switches on Apple devices.

„If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.“

—  Corrie ten Boom Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892 - 1983

„"There is no God," cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.“

—  Karl Jaspers German psychiatrist and philosopher 1883 - 1969

Man in the Modern Age (1933)

„Few mortals know that the kingdom of God includes the kingdom of mundane fulfillments. … The divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.“

—  Mahavatar Babaji Hindu Yogi

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), Ch. 34 : Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas

„In all these moments, we gradually make our lives more of a prayer and we open our hands to be led by God even to places we would rather not go.“

—  Henri Nouwen Dutch priest and writer 1932 - 1996

With Open Hands (1972)

„Why do they always show Christ up there bleeding and dying on the cross? We don't remember John Lennon lying there with a bullet hole in his head. I'm against the arbitrary organization of 'God' as a concept. We should all experience it all individually and purely. I don't agree with the separation of God and the body, I don't believe that we aren't a part of 'it', I don't agree that it's a man. In most religions there's no place for women. There aren't any women in the Holy Trinity and I need that. I love women, I came from a woman.“

—  Jeff Buckley American singer, guitarist and songwriter 1966 - 1997

B-Side Magazine, October/November 1994
From Interviews

„What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory?“

—  T.D. Jakes American bishop 1957

Source: The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord

„Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him.“

—  T.D. Jakes American bishop 1957

Source: Maximize the Moment: God's Action Plan For Your Life

„No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!“

—  T.D. Jakes American bishop 1957

„Let us, therefore, not live in the summer‑house of emotion, but in the central citadel of the will, wholly yielded and devoted to the will of God.“

—  Frederick Brotherton Meyer English Baptist pastor and evangelist 1847 - 1929

The Secret of Guidance (1896)

„Trust is sadguru fully. This is the only sadhana. Sadguru is all the gods.“

—  Sai Baba of Shirdi Hindu and muslim saint 1835 - 1918

Saying stated to his disciples

„One God governs all.“

—  Sai Baba of Shirdi Hindu and muslim saint 1835 - 1918

As translated in Shirdi Sai The Supreme (1997) by S. P. Ruhela, p. 188
Everyone's God is One.
As translated in Follow The Wind Of Your Soul (2006), by George C. Kottis, p. 345
Original: (hi) Sabka Malik Ek Hai.

„The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.“

—  Oswald Chambers, book My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

„Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.“

—  Alice Walker American author and activist 1944