Quotes about God

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“Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.”

“Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?”

“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”

“A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.”

“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”

“What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is raised, "What kind of God do you believe in?" my answer is easy: "I believe in a magnificent God.”

“There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.”

“… God leads you to it and takes you through it.”

“Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.”

“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”

“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving.”

“Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen,
who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat,
who never lived and yet outlived her time,
hating men and dogs and Democrats.”

“The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.”

“Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.”

“A friend once said, and I found to be true, That everyday people, they lie to God too, So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.”

“Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?”

“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”

“Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.”

“God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.”

“You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.”

“Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.”

“Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.”

“It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in--God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.”

“When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.”

“Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.”

“If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.”

“My God. Is there some unwritten law that you guys have to be giants? (Amanda)
What can I say? Artemis likes her Dark-Hunters tall. Short men need not apply. (Acheron)”

“Let nothing disturb thee;
Let nothing dismay thee:
All things pass;
God never changes.”

“God without Christ is no God.”

“He whirled in the water and grinned at me. Damn, he was a handsome bastard. I realized he was half-naked. Blue swirls of tattoos painted his chest. When God made that chest, he did to tempt women.”

“I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven. Every time the light shines through the window we built or any window at all, you'll know I'm right there with you, okay? That's going to be me. I'll be the light in the window.”

“Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin.
The only vengeance worth having on sin
is to make the sinner himself its executioner.”

“I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.”

“The universe is the way it is, whether we like
it or not. The existence or nonexistence of a creator is independent
of our desires. A world without God or purpose may seem harsh
or pointless, but that alone doesn ' t require God to actually exist.”

“I frowned. “You mean Set’s got, like, other evil gods on speed dial?”

“Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”

“Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.”

“Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world..

Morgan MacDonnell”

“I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.”

“No human on God's earth is a nobody.”

“Calvin: But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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“It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us… There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you… We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.”

“There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba”

“I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.”

“Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.”

“He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.”

“And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.”

“Love is the only future God offers.”

“Ash held one finger up. "OK. Now listen-"
Mary-Lynnette kicked him in the shins. She knew it was inapporopriate, she knew it was uncalled-for, but she couldn't stop herself. She justto.
"Oh, for God's sake," Ash said, hopping backward. "Are you?”

“An affirmation to say everyday:

The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way.”

“The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the, the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images.”

“Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering.
Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them.
Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.”

“I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.”

“We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.”

“Love will not be constrain'd by mastery.
When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon
Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone.
Love is a thing as any spirit free.”

“If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.”

“When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.”

“Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.”

“Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.”

“It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.”

“Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.”

“He walks in daylight. But, like a demon, he’s weaker then. He seems to have the powers of a god, but no followers. What would you call him? (Xypher)
I wouldn’t call him anything that didn’t make him deliriously happy. (Simone)”

“The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering
while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.”

“In the faces of men and women I see God.”

“Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.”

“A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!”

“Ian Kabra rolled up his window. "My god, what's that smell?"
Behind the wheel, Sinead laughed. "It's called fresh air. Growing up in London, you've probably never breathed it before."
"And I hope I never breathe it again.”

“Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.”

“Honor is the presence of God in man.”

“You never heard ofplugging her in? My God, Myrnin, you made a vampire computer?”

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.”

“Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.”

“It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.”

“Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler”

“… a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous…”

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.”

“God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.”

“All that is not God is death.”

“It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.”

“God dwells within you, as you.”

“Death is the only god that comes when you call.”

“God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.”

“Ever wonder why the gods created man, Grom? I personally think that we're the original reality show. They were so effing bored that they created us just so that they could feel better about themselves”

“I have long known that it is part of God’s plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth, and Mary Ellen was proof that even in the Appalachian woods I would not be spared. It became evident from the first moment that she was a rarity.”

“Yes!" Narissus unslung his bow and grabbed an arrow from his dusty quiver. "The first one who get that bronze, I will like youas much as I like me. I might even kiss you, right after I kiss my reflection!"

"Oh my gods!" the nymphs squealed.”

“Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.”

“You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.”

“If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.”

“If it turns out that there is a God… the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.”

“We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.”

“What I do know is that when I was sitting with you that night, I felt like God was telling me that I was doing the right thing.”

“Do your best and let God do the rest.”

“I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It’s like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!”

“At the door, Audrey called, "Are you coming?"
"No, just breathing hard, love." He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed by, "Oh, my God!”

“They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like… smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?”

“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”

“Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn’t work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don’t ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed.”

“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”

“If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.”