Quotes about God

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“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”

“God's mercy on you degenerate swine.”

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

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

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

“Good God. Men everywhere.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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”

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

“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.”

“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....”

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

“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”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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…”

“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.”

“"God help me," I murmured.”

“Be it unto you, even as you believe.

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

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

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

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Oh my God, baby, you are in so much trouble.”

“Are you mad? (Artemis)
Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron)”

“When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. We’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves.”

“All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions”

“What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”

“Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.”

“A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.”

“When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.”

“How is it possible that our parents lied to us?"

"Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter bunny, um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…"

"Everythings going to be alright.”

“By all the gods, I desire you, but you must know that you have my love. It's given, sieva. Wholly entrusted to you. Have a care with it.”

“God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.”

“Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer”

“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.”

“I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.”

“if you put your trust in God, you’ll be all right in the end.”

“Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.”

“God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.”

“Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”

“I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta."
Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.”