Quotes about God

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“Man wonders but God decides
When to kill the Prince of Tides.”

“Apollo?” I guessed…
He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.”
A god named Fred?”

“The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.”

“I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.”

“Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing…”

“I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.”

“Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.”

“A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.”

“Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.”

“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.”

“According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative - and woman’s - to create their own particular and private hell.”

“Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made”

“If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.”

“Put your expectations on God, not on people.”

“On my life, Magnus, I swear this is the truth: your father is a Norse god. Now, hurry. We're in a twenty- minute parking spot.”

“Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.”

“That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.”

“Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.”

“The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.”

“I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around."

I feel so wanted. Thanks.”

“It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.”

“If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.”

“Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If You are there somewhere, please teach me how to hide what I never knew how to show.”

“I love you Clary. More then I ever-- God. More than i probably should. You know that, don't you?”

“But God is only a white cold eye, a quarter-moon poised above the smoke, blinking, blinking, as the city is gradually pounded to dust.”

“They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.”

“A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?”

“I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.”

“As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree"— probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.”

“When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.”

“Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.”

“In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.”

“The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity.”

“The god’s expression was calm and content, as if he’d just come home from a lovely evening strolling through the Fields of Punishment, enjoying the screams of the damned.”

“I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.”

“I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken!
--Joanne”

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”

“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful graces of God.”

“Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.”

“For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.”

“You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.”

“We are Morgensterns," he added, a dark ache in his voice. " The bright stars of morning. The children of Lucifer, the most beautiful of all God's angels. We are so much lovelier when we fall." He paused. "Look at me, Clary. Look at me.”

“A foe to God was never true friend to man”

“Hazel blinked. “Two gods had a horse for a kid?”
“Long story.”

“I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God."
"Then who are you?"
"The personnel officer who hired God.”

“There is no God.
But it does not matter.
Man is enough.”

“There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.”

“I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba)”

“Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.”

“Gods, how I’ve missed you. (Stryker)
I hate you with every beat of my heart. (Zephyra)”

“Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?”

“The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.”

“God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.”

“I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.”

“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea?—how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”

“When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.”

“God always offers us a second chance in life.”

“Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?”

“Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.”

“My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily.”

“Rev. Pat Robertson says that if more states legalize gay marriage, God will destroy America. He did say that afterwards, gays will come in and do a beautiful renovation.”

“Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren’t they working the same side of the street? Aren’t the judge and the executioner on the same team?”

“Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.”

“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”

“What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream”

“Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home.”

“He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.”

“If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.”

“You're screening your calls?"
"Why not? It saves me from conversations with idiots."
"Is that an insult?" His voice dropped into a deep growl.
"You're not an idiot," I told him. "You're just a deadly psychopath with a god complex.(…)”

“Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.”

“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.”

“Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.”

“We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.”

“War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.”

“Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.”

“God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.”

“God is the same everywhere.”

“Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.”

“I thought you were all-seeing.”
All-knowing, not all-seeing!” he snapped. “I’m a God, not Santa Claus!”

“Never offer your heart
to someone who eats hearts
who finds heartmeat
delicious
but not rare
who sucks the juices
drop by drop
and bloody-chinned
grins
like a God.”

“Faster!" Shane yelled. Eve hit the gas hard, and whipped around a slower-moving van. The firing ceased, at least for now. "You see why I didn't want you to stop?"
"Okay, your father is officially!" Eve yelled. "Oh my God, look at my car!”

“Common sense is no match for the voice of God.”

“I see God in a sunrise, not in repetitious ritual.”

“Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?”

“I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.”

“You need to follow your own heart in light of God’s word and do what you feel is right and good for you.”

“Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.”

“If God is the author of life, there must be a script.”

“I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love”

“wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg”

“oh god it’s wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke too many cigarettes
and love you so much”

“Oh, my God! It's a killer Pomeranian." I glanced up at Derek. "It's a tough call, but I think you can take him.”

“God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.”

“On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS”

“A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.”

“God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.”

“God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.”

“It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.”

“I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.'

Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not Adam,' she said, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. 'God.”