Quotes about God
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“Dear God,
I give this time of quiet to You.
Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear
And deliver me to the inner place
Where all is peace and love.
Amen.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles

Love, Fear, Peace, Time

“Relax, Jailbait," said Avery. "A drunken kiss is nothing compared to a drunken fall. God knows I've kissed plenty of guys drunk."
"And yet, I remain unkissed tonight," mused Adrian.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Guy, Kiss

“Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma."
Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah… yes. John Green."
"Jason Grace."
"Whatever," the god said.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Help

“As long as he has a house with two bathrooms. I swear to God, I don't care if he's Jack the Ripper.”

Janet Evanovich Hard Eight

Source: Hard Eight

Housing

“Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting.
Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom.
Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

Moms

“The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Girl, Decision

“What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?…God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.”

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer

Essays, The Triumph of Easter (1938)
Source: The Whimsical Christian: 18 Essays

Business, Evil, Dead

“Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.”

Jerry Bridges (1929–2016) American writer

Source: Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

Soul, Time

“The gods need heroes. They always have.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“My arms are too short to box with God.”

Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter

Box

“It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”

Charles Bukowski book Pulp

Variant: It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
Source: Pulp

Life

“… hot pink with a star done in rainbow rhinestones on the front. It was god-awful.
I bought it.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Star

“When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.”

Shane Claiborne (1975) American activist

Source: Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

“Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.”

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) English novelist (1815-1882)

Speech at the opening of an art exhibition at Bolton Mechanics' Institution (7 December 1868)

Love, Pleasure, Books, Perfection

“God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Time

“God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.”

John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer

Justice, Parting

“What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Law, Way, Feeling, Personality

“God help us to live slowly:
To move simply:
To look softly:
To allow emptiness:
To let the heart create for us.
Amen.”

Michael Leunig (1945) Australian artist

Help, Heart

“No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening — still all is Beauty!”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

26 June 1875, page 208
John of the Mountains, 1938

Beauty, Mountain, Star, Water

“She wants you to be a god," I told him.
"I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Parent, Heart

“God is at home. We are in the far country.”

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian

Home, Country

“Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.”

Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian

Way

“It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Queen of Everything

Color

“When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

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

“Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Truth, Feeling

“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

"Confessions of an unromantic man," Redbook magazine, Vol. 176, Iss. 4, (Feb 1991): 62.

Color, Funny

“It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers.
Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Thinking, Daughters

“The Christians gave Him Sunday, the Jews gave Him Saturday, and the Muslims gave Him Friday. God has a three-day weekend.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

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

Idea

“God's a busy guy. He don't have time to micromanage. What are the chances he heard that? It's early in the morning. He's probably having breakfast with Mrs. God.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

Source: Motor Mouth

Guy, Business, Chance, Time

“I know nothing of god or the devil. I have never learned a secret nor found a cure that would damn or save my soul.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

Secret, Soul, Learning

“I'm not good with children," the god confessed. "Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Life, Children, People

“To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.”

William Nicholson movie Shadowlands

Source: Shadowlands

Pain, World, Dreams, Way

“The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

Men, Communication, Question, Time

“We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.”

Ben Okri The Famished Road

Source: The Famished Road

World, Dreams

“Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

Life

“We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.”

Philip Yancey (1949) American writer

Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

Life, Health, Disappointment, Thinking

“That's because I'm made of awesome."

"And dipped in awesome."

"And sprinkled with awesome."

"Gods, I love the taste of awesome.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Surrender

Love

“I’ll stare the bastard in the face as he screams to God, and I’ll laugh harder when he whimpers like a baby. And when his eyes go dead, the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I’ve done to him.”

Frank Miller book The Hard Goodbye

Source: The Hard Goodbye

Hell, Baby, Dead

“Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer The Dead and the Gone

Source: The Dead and the Gone

World

“if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

World, Law, Nature

“It’s vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

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

Life, Happiness, Peace, Learning

“As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

Heart

“God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Source: Under the Dome

“I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

Love

“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.”

Karl Barth (1886–1968) Swiss Protestant theologian

As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 223.

Laughter

“Dear God, teach me to be careless.”

Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist

Source: Intimacy

“Oh my God," Maddie whispered, horrified. "I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer?"

Tara's heart clutched. "He's not dead yet."

"Hurry," Maddie called to Ford. "I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex!" I look terrible in orange!”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: The Sweetest Thing

Heart, Dead

“He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

Life, Women, Men, Disappointment

“The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Himself included in that community as its prime sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.”

Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher

Love, History, Communication, Personality

“We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

Source: The Passion of Jesus Christ

Truth, Suffering, Christ

“Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.”

N.T. Wright (1948) Anglican bishop

Source: Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

Life, People

“You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

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

Life

“Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

Family, Way, Funny, For Bestfriend

“But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Fight

“God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn’t press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.”

Augusten Burroughs book A Wolf at the Table

Source: A Wolf at the Table

Sincerity

“Man makes plans… and God laughs.”

Michael Chabon (1963) Novelist, short story writer, essayist

“Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Life, Friendship, Loneliness

“To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book The Mind of the Maker

Source: The Mind of the Maker

Time

“Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as much as it comes in the way of childlike reliance on Him.”

Tracie Peterson (1959) American writer

Source: Morning's Refrain

Fear, Way, Confidence

“She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Women, Men, Fashion, Light

“Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times…
If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Star, Spring, Nature, Time

“Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.”

Morris Gleitzman (1953) Australian writer

Source: Grace

Waiting

“They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling.
God help us all.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Help

“This is not theology. I have no bent towards gods. But i have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Variant: But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.
Source: East of Eden

Love, Soul, Universe

“Oh God, I just kissed a vampire!"

Oh Gods, I just kissed a human!”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Variant: Amanda - "Oh God, I just kissed a vampire!" Kyrian - "Oh Gods, I just kissed a human!
Source: Night Pleasures

Kiss

“In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

World

“If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.”

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

“It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

Way, Understanding, Heart

“I can’t believe this night. I was supposed to be applauded and instead, I’m ruined. I swear to God in heaven if I ever see that man again, I will commit murder. (Tory)
Well, if you need help moving the body, you know where Kim and I live. (Pam)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Help, Night

“When God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Grace for the Moment

Failure, Victory

“Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

Love, Cars, Dance

“All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

People, World, History

“Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.”

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint

“Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?”

James Frey (1969) American screenwriter and media presenter

Heart

“When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.”

Diana Gabaldon (1952) American author

Source: An Echo in the Bone

Problem

“Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Men, Dreams

“LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Feeling, Winter

“The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity…”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Love, Effort, Light, Joy

“Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

Feeling

“A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.”

H. Richard Niebuhr (1894–1962) American theologian

Source: The Kingdom of God in America

Men, Christ

“She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Sense

“God help him." He chortled. "He doesn't realize he loves her. And even if he did, he wouldn't admitted it."
-Dr. Whitticomb”

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

Love, Help

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

Thomas Jefferson book Notes on the State of Virginia

Query XVII
1780s, Notes on the State of Virginia

“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?”

Quentin Crisp (1908–1999) writer, Actor

Attributed
Source: Quoted in The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp

People

“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done well as the god of theater.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Thinking

“Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.”

Matthew Henry (1662–1714) Theologician from Wales

Fear, Beauty, Soul, Heart

“But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Life, Women, World, Fear

“God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

Books

“she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“But God will know the slow tread of an old couple’s love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book The Buried Giant

Source: The Buried Giant

Love, Understanding, Parting

“Isabelle!" he called again. "Let down your raven hair!'
"Oh my God," Clary muttered. "There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.”

Melody Beattie (1948) American writer

Source: 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact

Faith, Way, Universe, Gratitude

“I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Life, Religion, Drawing

“God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

Life, Passion

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Quotes about God
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