Quotes about God

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Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Source: The Killer Angels

Source: P.S. I Love You

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: Flowers for Algernon

Source: "Letter from a Region of My Mind" in The New Yorker (17 November 1962); republished as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind" in The Fire Next Time (1963)
Context: If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

Source: El club Dumas

Source: Shōgun

Source: Joni: An Unforgettable Story

Source: This Side of Paradise

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

Source: Clockwork Prince

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Source: The Bonehunters

Source: Fields Of Gold

Source: Night Pleasures

"Poem IX", in Complete Works St. Teresa of Avila (1963) edited by E. Allison Peers, Vol. 3, p. 288
Context: Let nothing disturb thee;
Let nothing dismay thee:
All things pass;
God never changes.
Patience attains
All that it strives for.
He who has God
Finds he lacks nothing:
God alone suffices.

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

Source: Magic Burns

Source: The Last Song

From ‘’Justice’’ in Unspoken Sermons Series III (1889)
Context: If sin must be kept alive, then hell must be kept alive; but while I regard the smallest sin as infinitely loathsome, I do not believe that any being, never good enough to see the essential ugliness of sin, could sin so as to deserve such punishment. I am not now, however, dealing with the question of the duration of punishment, but with the idea of punishment itself; and would only say in passing, that the notion that a creature born imperfect, nay, born with impulses to evil not of his own generating, and which he could not help having, a creature to whom the true face of God was never presented, and by whom it never could have been seen, should be thus condemned, is as loathsome a lie against God as could find place in heart too undeveloped to understand what justice is, and too low to look up into the face of Jesus.

Source: The Notebook

Source: A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Source: The Red Pyramid

Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer.
One of Gautier's contributions to his collaboration with Jules Sandeau, Émile de Girardin, and Joseph Méry, La croix de Berny (Paris: Librairie Nouvelle, 1855) p. 28; Suzy Platt (ed.) Respectfully Quoted (Washington: Library of Congress, 1989) p. 38

Source: Rebekah

Source: A Whisper of Roses

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Source: Twenties Girl

The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
Source: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

Source: Zorba the Greek

As quoted in Multiple Intelligences in Practice : Enhancing Self-esteem and Learning in the Classroom (2006) by Mike Fleetham, Section 2 : Using MI
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

Source: Unwind

Variant: 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 not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.
Source: City of Bones

Source: Les Misérables

Source: Daughters of Darkness

Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice

Source: The Bonehunters

Source: Outer Dark (1968)

As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 255

Source: The Canterbury Tales

Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Source: Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

Variant: God has granted you a special talent. It's now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
Source: The Kite Runner

Source: Dream Chaser

Song of Myself, 48
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Source: The God Delusion

Source: The Medusa Plot

Source: Life of Pi

Source: The Lords of Discipline

Source: Carpe Corpus

Source: Little Earthquakes

Source: Dead Until Dark

Source: Gone with the Wind

Source: Early Will I Seek Thee

Source: Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III

Source: Thor, by J. Michael Straczynski, Volume 1

24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai (1985) - Review of 24 views, with images http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/gallery/hokusai/24views.htm <br class="br">Source: Frost &amp; Fire

Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

Source: Styxx

Source: A Walk in the Woods (1997), Chapter 4 (p. 51)

Source: The Mark of Athena

Source: Strip Tease

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

Source: Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide

Variant: If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Source: The Longest Ride

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 255

Source: Fate's Edge

Source: The Son of Neptune

Pearls of Wisdom

The monster to Robert Walton
Source: Frankenstein (1818)
Context: I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; 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.
Context: I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment. Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; 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.

Source: The Magnificent Defeat (1966)