“It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.”
Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist
Quotes about God page 4
Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader
Variant: God does not begin by asking our ability, but more of our availability. When we prove our dependability, He will in crease our capability.
“What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
“Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.”
Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF… my GOD.”
Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) British writer
“Beer is made by men, wine by God.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
“I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
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Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)
Source: Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
Seraphim Rose (1934–1982) American Orthodox writer and saint
Source: God's Revelation to the Human Heart
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896–1977) Indian guru
Source: Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Picasso quoted in 'TIME'; quoted in: The Atlantic, Vol. 214 (1964), p. 97.
Picasso commented on his ambiguous style, or use of multiple styles.
1960s
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
“Jesus is to God as we must be to Jesus.”
William Barclay (1907–1978) Church of Scotland minister and academic
Source: The Gospel of John, Volume One: 1
“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher
Life Life to the Full, Christian Herald (UK), 14 April 2001
Source: The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus's Essential Teachings on Discipleship
“Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
William Booth (1829–1912) British Methodist preacher
Variant: I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be.... religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Wishful Thinking, p. 95
Variant: Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.
Source: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (1973)
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
“Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”
Bob Pierce (1914–1978) American evangelical charity founder
“A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Source: Life Is Worth Living
“God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.”
John Newton (1725–1807) Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer
Source: Amazing Grace
“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
“How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?”
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
Source: Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
“There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.”
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
“Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
“I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Variant: I'm not where I need to be, but thank God i'm not where I used to be.
Source: Woman To Woman: Candid Conversations From Me To You
“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (1950-02-19)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Variant: I talk to God, but the sky is empty.
“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
“A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.”
Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) British writer
Source: Meat For Men (n. d.)
“God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi:
“In darkness God's truth shines most clear.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
“Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!”
Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian
George Orwell book Down and Out in Paris and London
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 30
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
Context: He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve. Sometimes, he said, when sleeping on the Embankment, it had consoled him to look up at Mars or Jupiter and think that there were probably Embankment sleepers there. He had a curious theory about this. Life on earth, he said, is harsh because the planet is poor in the necessities of existence. Mars, with its cold climate and scanty water, must be far poorer, and life correspondingly harsher. Whereas on earth you are merely imprisoned for stealing sixpence, on Mars you are probably boiled alive. This thought cheered Bozo, I do not know why. He was a very exceptional man.
Bartolomé de las Casas book A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Source: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
“What did God do before he created the universe?”
Stephen Hawking book A Brief History of Time
Source: A Brief History of Time
“Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.”
Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
Stephen Hawking book The Nature of Space and Time
During the same 1994 exchange with Penrose as the previous quote, transcribed in The Nature of Space and Time (1996) by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, p. 26 http://books.google.com/books?id=LstaQTXP65cC&lpg=PA26&dq=hawking%20%22where%20they%20can't%20be%20seen%22&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q=&f=false and also in "The Nature of Space and Time" (online text) http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409195<br>Unsourced variants: Not only does God play dice with the Universe; he sometimes casts them where they can't be seen.<br>Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. <br class="br">Variant: So Einstein was wrong when he said "God does not play dice". Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.”
Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) British saint, poet, novelist
“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
Galileo Galilei Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Variant: I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Source: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
Context: I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
Context: I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.<!-- ¶22
“I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.”
Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order
“I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
“Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen!”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
As reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 186; and in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Here I stand; I can do no other.
Source: Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses
Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter