Quotes about God

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“we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.”

“In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment.”

“I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.”

“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”

“We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.”

“A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.”

“Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.”

“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!"”

“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”

“At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.”

“On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?”

“Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?”

“Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.”

“I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.”

“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”

“It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).”

“I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.”

“And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238”

“In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.”

“A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures…”

“i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes”

“Please, God, send me something to adore.”

“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.”

“My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.”

“Oh my God, I thought. I’m rooming with the Sydney Sage of re-education.”

“Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.”

“What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.”

“Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.”

“Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.”

“I shouldn't have done that," I said.

That was when I kissed him again.

May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.”

“But she stepped forward and placed a finger to his lips and there it was before him. The greatest prayer to the gods he could muster with a heart so broken.”

“How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence.
That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her.
Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.”

“The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.”

“For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it… We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.”

“God, I needed you," he murmured. "I can't even tell you how many times I thought about this. The funny thing is, I don't need you any less now. I think I need you more."
~Shane~”

“For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?”

“I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.”

“Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please.
Please.
If you're up there.
Somewhere.”

“Is he nuts?"
"I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'."
"So that would be a yes.”

“Change
is the one unavoidable,
irresistible,
ongoing reality of the universe.
To us,
that makes it the most powerful reality,
and just another word for
God.

Earthseed: The Books of the Living
Lauren Oya Olamina”

“I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.”

“Look to your heart
that flutters in and out like a moth.
God is not indifferent to your need.
You have a thousand prayers
but God has one.”

“No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”

“In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.”

“Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me…" As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.”

“The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?”

“They say that God is everywhere and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse.”

“I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”

“It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”

“There is no God any more divine than Yourself.”

“The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.”

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16”

“Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.”

“The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.”

“They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it.”

“You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.”

“Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.”

“I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.”

“The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.”

“Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.”

“There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.”

“A Time For Prayer

"In times of war and not before,
God and the soldier we adore.
But in times of peace and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the soldier slighted."

-Rudyard Kipling”

“I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”

“Have God make a message out of your mess.”

“Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?”

“God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.”

“You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys.”

“He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.”

“My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and—oh, yeah—head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time.”

“Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.”

“God is eagerly waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as he always has. But he can't if you don't pray, and he can't if you don't dream. In short, he can't if you don't believe.”

“Mom's eyes blazed. "Are you sleeping with her?"

Oh, god. Did we have to do this here? Now? "Well, actually," I smirked, "we don't get a lot of sleep.”

“Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are”

“God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.”

“He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love

(when God whisper your name)”

“Shaw… has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her?"
"Good God, no," Gideon replied with a snicker. "Shaws don't write poetry. They pay others to write it for them and then take the credit for it.”

“The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.”

“God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.”

“Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.”

“The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.”

“I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.”

“God is even in a single parent household.”

“It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.”

“God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.”

“I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods.
Perfect, it will keep him occupied.
In what capacity?
Bait.”

“God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.”

“In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.”

“Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.”

“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.”

“God save us always," I said, "from the innocent and the good.”

“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”

“God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.”

“I stood my ground. "You evil scientist are all the same--evil. Count me out."

Fang and I brushed past Mr. God and walked quickly but smoothly to the exit. It was barely noon, and I'd already made a huge enemy.

Dang, I'm good.”

“The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.”

“A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums.”

“The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.”

“Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.”

“Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.”

“Oh, for God's sake. Save your piss. Don't save your piss. It's all the same to me.”