Quotes about God

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“God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.”

“A long white ribbon shot out of the crack in the wall. The ribbon just kept coming, weaving itself into some kind of shape next to Anubis, and my first thought was, My god, he’s got a magic roll of toilet paper.”

“God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.”

“Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.”

“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”

“To get along with God,
Consider the consequences of your behavior.
Earthseed: The Books of the Living”

“No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response isYes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.”

“When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.”

“Glory?…. Glory belongs to God alone.”

“Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”

“Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian”

“There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.”

“If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.”

“As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.”

“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”

“It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be…

Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.

I'm old.”

“This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty… what you will.”

“I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.”

“With the breakdown of the Medieval system, the gods of Chaos, Lunacy, and Bad Taste gained ascendancy.”

“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”

“Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.”

“If God only used perfect people, nohting would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.”

“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.”

“Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?”

“God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.”

“It's a shame you know," he called over his shoulder.
"What's a shame?" Duncan asked.
"That I didn't capture her first."
Duncan smiled. "Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you.”

“God put me on earth to accomplish certain things. Right now, I’m so far behind, I’ll never die.”

“If God wanted us to bend over he would put diamonds on the floor.”

“There are times when God leaves huge question marks as tools in our lives to stretch our our faith.”

“God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us.  He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.”

“For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.”

“The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you. The hope of a child-like heart to you. The joy of a thousand angels to you. The love of the Son and God's peace to you.”

“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”

“Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in my painting, but what I cannot do without, unwell as I am, is something greater than myself, which is my life, the power to create.”

“Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims.”

“This girl (Stephanie) is but a few months away from her seventeenth birthday and already she has saved the world and killed a god. What have you done?”

“The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.”

“In person, if possible, Anubis was even more drop-dead gorgeous. [Oh… ha, ha. I didn't catch the pun, but thank you, Carter. God of the dead, drop-dead gorgeous. Yes, hilarious. Now, may I continue? ]”

“We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.”

“At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.”

“My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.”

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”

“Remake the wild, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. You cannot wait for anyone else, even a god, to do that for you.”

“Every creature is a word of God.”

“I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.”

“If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.”

“I do not believe in God, because I believe in man.”

“His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.”

“I thought she'd make some comment about the bloodthirsty gods chasing us, but when she finally found her voice, she said, "That boy kissed you!"
Leave it to Liz to have her priorities straight.”

“I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?”

“The god's voice was tinged with disappointment. you"I've been to Tartarus and back," Nico snarled. "You don't scare me."”

“Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.”

“I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.”

“I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak.
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.”

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.”

“Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.”

“I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.”

“God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.”

“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”

“It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.”

“God give me anything but a good man's pity.”

“Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”

“I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'

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“If God dropped acid, would he see people?”

“All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it.”

“Only God knows how much I love you.”

“Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.”

“Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.”

“We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us — the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”

“God save us from religion.”

“Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin…. We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.”

“I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.”

“Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.”

“In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.”

“If it’s not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people, that’s when God is going to make sure that His abundant blessings overtake you.”

“I don’t need to be reminded that we’re up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we’re the gods-damned sharks.”

“God is God because he remembers.”

“God might work on mysterious ways, but hell worked on efficient ones.”

“Oh, god,” I said. “Sorry, sorry. Do I die now?”
--Sadie to Zia”

“Runes, runes, runes… Runes. An inverted Algiz rune. The caption next to it said “Chernobog.” The Black God. Right. Of course, it wouldn’t be Chernobog, God of Morning Dew on the Rose Petals, but a woman could always hope.”

“Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.”

“I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.”

“What’s Julie’s number?”

Curran glanced at me.

“Julie’s fluctuating between thirty-two and thirty-four units. Her shift coefficient is six point five and she’s been at it for sixteen hours.”

Dear God, I’d need a damn calculator.”

“Ah,' the innkeeper said. 'So you were getting ready to drink then?'
'Tiny Gods, yes,' Bast said. 'To great excess. What the hell else is there to do?”

“For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.”

“God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful…”

“Only God is awesome.”

“Oh my god you're thicker than you look”

“The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.”

“God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.”

“We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.”

“He blinked, and his eyes moved at last from her face, slowly taking in her appearance, and- with what seemed to her a new and horrified awareness- her height.

"My God," he croaked. "”

“A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand… well, God put a lot of thought in making you.”

“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.”

“If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.”

“God Said: Let there be light!
I said: Say please.”

“Just for you non-sea-god types out there, don't go swimming in New York Harbor. It may not be as filthy as it was in my mom's day, but that water will still probably make you grow a third eye or have mutant children when you grow up.”

“God waited me out.”

“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”