Quotes about God
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“To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Love, Life, Time, Waiting

“I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want… and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God”

Billy Corgan (1967) American musician, songwriter, producer, and author

“God's mercy on you degenerate swine.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Swine

“Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.”

Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer

Source: Surprise Endings

“Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.”

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist

Source: The Vision and the Voice: With Commentary and Other Papers

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue”

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

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“Good God. Men everywhere.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Men

“When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.”

Jeannette Walls (1960) American writer and journalist

“When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not an agnostic- I'm an acrostic, the whole thing puzzles me.”

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

Books, Brain Droppings (1997)

“Like any man, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, I've Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
Context: Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like any man, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

Life, People, Mountain

“God fills us with all sorts of yearnings that go against the grain of the world—but the fact those yearnings often come to nothing, well, I doubt that’s God’s doing.” She cut her eyes at me and smiled. “I think we know that’s men’s doing.”

Sue Monk Kidd (1948) Novelist

Source: The Invention of Wings

Men, World, Smile, Thinking

“If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

Singing

“How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god?”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

“I hadn't gotten far when I ran into Mason.
Good God. Men everywhere.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Men

“God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.”

Eloisa James (1962) American academic

Source: When Beauty Tamed the Beast

“Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.”

Dean Koontz book Seize the Night

Seize the Night (1999)

Stupidity

“Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself”

Elie Wiesel book Night

Source: Night

Life, Forgetting

“The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Life

“It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Source: Individuality From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'

Soul

“For gods' sake, Strider," Torin snapped. "Open your mouth and form some words. While you're at it, stop staring at the angel like he's a tasty treat.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Secret

Angels

“God wants you to have a good life, a life filled with love, joy, peace, and fulfillment. That doesn’t mean it will always be easy, but it does mean that it will always be good.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

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

Love, Life, Peace, Joy

“An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory!”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

Source: Believing God

Victory

“Mr. Sourpuss Pants God I love her Nicholas " Thomas crowed. When he noticed that neither Nicholas nor Inez looked impressed by the words he added quickly "In a totally sister-in-law type fashion of course.”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

Source: The Renegade Hunter

Love, Law, Fashion, Sister

“some things you will think of yourself,… some things God will put into your mind”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

Thinking

“The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

“Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts by the Holy Spirit”

John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer

Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

Truth, Faith, Knowledge, Heart

“He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

Time

“Worship from the heart in times of adversity implies an attitude of humble acceptance on our part of God's right to do as He pleases in our lives.”

Jerry Bridges (1929–2016) American writer

Source: Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

Time, Heart, Parting

“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken....”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)

Love, War, Fear, Faith

“To be an artist is to enter into competition with god.”

Patti Smith (1946) American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist

“God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it”

Jim Cymbala (1959) author, pastor

Memory, Past, Forgetting

“The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!”

Arthur C. Clarke book 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

“He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Claimed By Shadow

“You ever wonder when god's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

“The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

People, Pleasure, World, Hell

“What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.”

Mark Batterson (1969) American pastor and writer

Source: In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day: How To Survive And Thrive When Opportunity Roars

Dreams, Courage

“God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Life, Personality

“Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular.”

Marie Jenney Howe (1870–1934) American writer

Source: An Anti-Suffrage Monologue

Women, Men, Feeling

“I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 9

Women, Fools

“A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Men, People

“never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Faith, Game, Thinking

“God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

Thinking, Suffering

“Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

“Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Books, School, Soul

“We received our colouring from the Norsemen, hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees. We are the ones who sacked Rome. Fear only feeble old age and death in bed. Don't forget who you are.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Death, Age, Fear, Tree

“"God help me," I murmured.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Help

“Be it unto you, even as you believe.

In God's economy, we believe first and then see.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.”

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary

Exercises, Drawing

“God has promised to supply our needs. What we don’t have now we don’t need now.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: The Path of Loneliness: Finding Your Way Through the Wilderness to God

“God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Tear, Laughter

“There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But… this is what God wants of you.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

Way

“I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Way, Parent, Sense, Sister

“They desecrate Riora’s sacred temple! She will be enraged.”
“Oh, gods, look at the marble. We are all beyond doomed.”
“Somebody put a plant in front of it!”

Kresley Cole book No Rest for the Wicked

Source: No Rest for the Wicked

“We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

“I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.”

Louisa May Alcott book Jo's Boys

Source: Jo's Boys

Men

“God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling…”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Feeling, Forgiveness

“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”

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

9 December 1852
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet

Books, Universe

“Wilf: God bless the cactuses!
The Doctor: That's cactI.
Alien: And that's racist!”

Russell T. Davies (1963) Screenwriter, former executive producer of Doctor Who

“I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.”

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) American writer

“For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

“God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Tree

“It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary

World, Heart

“We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart, Feeling His Love

Death, Fear, Beauty, Tear

“It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Happiness, People, Suffering

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”

Norman Mailer book The Presidential Papers

Preface
The Presidential Papers (1963)
Context: Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

“You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.”

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint

“God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

Love, Perfection

“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

“God, if you ever loved me, open my eyes for me when I'm being this stupid! (Ron)”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Once Dead, Twice Shy

Love, Stupidity

“We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

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

Forgetting

“Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.”

Dave Ramsey (1960) American financial advisor

Dependency

“And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.”

John Grisham book The Testament

Source: The Testament

Failure

“It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Heart

“If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.”

Khaled Hosseini (1965) novelist

Source: The Kite Runner: A Portrait of the Marc Forster Film

Hope, Drink

“It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Feeling

“God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress

The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 86
Context: I saw full surely that ere God made us He loved us; which love was never slacked, nor ever shall be. And in this love He hath done all His works; and in this love He hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein He made us was in Him from without beginning: in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.
Context: In this we shall see verily the cause of all things that He hath done; and evermore we shall see the cause of all things that He hath suffered. And the bliss and the fulfilling shall be so deep and so high that, for wonder and marvel, all creatures shall have to God so great reverent dread, overpassing that which hath been seen and felt before, that the pillars of heaven shall tremble and quake. But this manner of trembling and dread shall have no pain; but it belongeth to the worthy might of God thus to be beholden by His creatures, in great dread trembling and quaking for meekness of joy, marvelling at the greatness of God the Maker and at the littleness of all that is made. For the beholding of this maketh the creature marvellously meek and mild.
Wherefore God willeth — and also it belongeth to us, both in nature and grace — that we wit and know of this, desiring this sight and this working; for it leadeth us in right way, and keepeth us in true life, and oneth us to God. And as good as God is, so great He is; and as much as it belongeth to His goodness to be loved, so much it belongeth to His greatness to be dreaded. For this reverent dread is the fair courtesy that is in Heaven afore God’s face. And as much as He shall then be known and loved overpassing that He is now, in so much He shall be dreaded overpassing that He is now.
Wherefore it behoveth needs to be that all Heaven and earth shall tremble and quake when the pillars shall tremble and quake.

Love