Quotes about God
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“Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Way

“Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.”

Scott Dikkers (1965) American comic writer

Source: You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

Lie, Adulthood

“For a moment, Nico felt like a little kid again. He was tempted to blurt out, That’s so cool! Even before he got into Mythomagic, he’d been obsessed with pirates. Probably that was one reason he’d been so smitten with Percy, a son of the sea god.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Sea

“I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said.
"God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Girl, Time

“Every day, God gives us the sun — and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Variant: Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Change, Sun

“Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Life, Faith, Problem, Help

“How I long to see
among dawn flowers,
the face of God.”

Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet

Source: Haiku

Flowers

“All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
Is Change.

God
Is Change.”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 1 (p. 3)

Truth, Change

“God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of
this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Fear, Faith

“But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

“The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Thinking

“… It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Life

“There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Time

“Is that your reason for fighting?! We're different!!! We fight for the sake of our injured friends!!! No matter if our opponents are humans, demons, or even gods!!!”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

Fight

“Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.”

Julian of Norwich book Revelations of Divine Love

Summations, Chapter 44
Source: Revelations of Divine Love
Context: Truth seeth God, and Wisdom beholdeth God, and of these two cometh the third: that is, a holy marvellous delight in God; which is Love. Where Truth and Wisdom are verily, there is Love verily, coming of them both. And all of God’s making: for He is endless sovereign Truth, endless sovereign Wisdom, endless sovereign Love, unmade; and man’s Soul is a creature in God which hath the same properties made, and evermore it doeth that it was made for: it seeth God, it beholdeth God, and it loveth God. Whereof God enjoyeth in the creature; and the creature in God, endlessly marvelling.
Context: Truth seeth God, and Wisdom beholdeth God, and of these two cometh the third: that is, a holy marvellous delight in God; which is Love. Where Truth and Wisdom are verily, there is Love verily, coming of them both. And all of God’s making: for He is endless sovereign Truth, endless sovereign Wisdom, endless sovereign Love, unmade; and man’s Soul is a creature in God which hath the same properties made, and evermore it doeth that it was made for: it seeth God, it beholdeth God, and it loveth God. Whereof God enjoyeth in the creature; and the creature in God, endlessly marvelling.
In which marvelling he seeth his God, his Lord, his Maker so high, so great, and so good, in comparison with him that is made, that scarcely the creature seemeth ought to the self. But the clarity and the clearness of Truth and Wisdom maketh him to see and to bear witness that he is made for Love, in which God endlessly keepeth him.

Love, Wisdom, Truth

“Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Idea, Nature

“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.”

Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Love, Time

“Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.”

Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) American television screenwriter and producer

As quoted in Can A Smart Person Believe in God? (2004) by Michael Guillen, Ch. 7 : Hope Springs Eternal, p. 90

Question

“All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Men, World, Way, Madness

“I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Peace, Thinking, Light

“People here worship the sun." "Yes, but my people worship the God who made the sun.”

Gilbert Morris (1929–2016) American writer

Source: Till Shiloh Comes

People, Sun

“If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Cute

“God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with the world, unafraid of the consequences since they know that, whatever happens, they will have eternal life.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions

Life, People, World

“God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.”

Jerry Bridges (1929–2016) American writer

Source: Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

Way, Understanding, Learning

“You need to take pride in what God has given you.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

“Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

Children, Thinking, Joy

“We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

Truth, Learning

“God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.”

Ted Dekker book Kiss

Source: Kiss

Fear

“Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Truth, Despair

“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about?”

Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer

Singing

“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Variant: Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
Source: Life of Pi

Love, Faith, Faith

“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

People

“The moon is a stone and the sky is full of deadly hardware, but oh God, how beautiful anyway.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Beauty

“Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Source: The Tent

Hell, Universe

“That's how it is sometimes--
God comes to your window,
all bright light and black wings,
and you're just too tired to open it.”

Dorianne Laux (1952) American poet

Source: What We Carry

Light

“What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Morrigan's Cross

“Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.”

Tana French book The Likeness

Source: The Likeness

“I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.”

Diana Norman (1933–2011) British author and journalist

Source: The Serpent's Tale

“We are gods in the chrysalis.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

People, Way, Idea, Understanding

“God grant that I may never live to be useless!”

John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian

Source: How To Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer

“the gods play no
favorites.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.”

Shane Claiborne (1975) American activist

“Buddha had said:
"Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

Wisdom

“Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.”

Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic

Love

“We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

“Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Source: Leaving Home‎ (1987), p. 9
Context: Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

Love, Life, Forgiveness

“… if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

Source: Believing God

Departure

“… have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

Hope, Thinking

“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

The New York Times October 15, 1986, MAN IN THE NEWS; WITNESS TO EVIL: ELIEZER WEISEL, By JOSEPH BERGER http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/15/world/man-in-the-news-witness-to-evil-eliezer-weisel.html

Faith, Anger, Faith