Quotes about God
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“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/05/01/random_thoughts, May 01, 2007 <br class="br">2000s

“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.”

John Crowley book Little, Big

Source: Little, Big

Life, Books

“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.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

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

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Error

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

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Hell

“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.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Love, Life, Motivation, Thinking

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

Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) American science fiction writer

Books, Behavior

“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.”

Ann Coulter book Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism

“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.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Soul, Suffering, Season

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

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese

No. XXVI
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)

Dreams

“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”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

War, Home

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

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

“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.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

World, Heart

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

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist

Source: Gone With The Wind

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

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

Men

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

Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.

I'm old.”

Sophie Kinsella book Remember Me?

Source: Remember Me?

“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.”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One
Context: This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. 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.

Love, Books, Beauty, Art

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

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

Justice

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

John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, posthumous), Ch. 2, opening line

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

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Love, Hate, Faith

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

Diana Norman (1933–2011) British author and journalist

Evil

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

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

People, Perfection

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

Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) French writer

Religion

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

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

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

William Peter Blatty book The Exorcist

Source: The Exorcist

“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.”

Julie Garwood (1946) American writer

Source: Honor's Splendour

Truth, Smile

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

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

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

Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American comedian, actress, and television host

„I'm Jewish. I don't work out.."

As quoted in Dick Enberg's Humorous Quotes for All Occasions (2000), p. 101
Variant: I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

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

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

Faith, Question, Time

“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.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

Source: Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender

Dreams, Past, Christ, Personality

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

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint

Friendship, Faith

“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.”

Sherryl Woods (1944) American writer

Source: An O'Brien Family Christmas

Love, Peace, Hope, Angels

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

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

“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.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Life, Painting

“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.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 16, pp. 54–55

Love, Way

“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?”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

World, Girl, Birthday

“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.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

World, Beauty

“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? ]”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Personality, Dead

“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.”

Stormie Omartian (1942) American writer

Source: The Power of a Praying Woman

Happiness, Soul

“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.”

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition

Bird, Learning, Singing, Time

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

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Life

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

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Love

“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.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

World, Time, Waiting

“Every creature is a word of God.”

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian

“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.”

Quentin Crisp (1908–1999) writer, Actor

Imagination, Speed

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

Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian

People

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

Emma Goldman (1868–1940) anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches

Responding to audience questions during a speech in Detroit (1898); as recounted in Living My Life (1931), p. 207; quoted by Annie Laurie Gaylor in Women Without Superstition, p. 382
Context: Ladies and gentlemen, I came here to avoid as much as possible treading on your corns. I had intended to deal only with the basic issue of economics that dictates our lives from the cradle to the grave, regardless of our religion or moral beliefs. I see now that it was a mistake. If one enters a battle, he cannot be squeamish about a few corns. Here, then, are my answers: I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years past been working to undo the botched job your God has made.
As to killing rulers, it depends entirely on the position of the ruler. If it is the Russian Czar, I most certainly believe in dispatching him to where he belongs. If the ruler is as ineffectual as an American President, it is hardly worth the effort. There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. As for the gentleman who asked if free love would not build more houses of prostitution, my answer is: They will all be empty if the men of the future look like him.

“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.”

Roger Zelazny Lord of Light

Source: Lord of Light

“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.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Boy, Kiss

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

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Way

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

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Disappointment

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

Wally Lamb book I Know This Much Is True

Source: I Know This Much Is True

Love, Dogs, Forgiveness

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

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

“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.”

Ezra Pound The Cantos

Canto CXX (the concluding Canto of the 1975 edition of The Cantos')
The Cantos

Love, Forgiveness

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

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

The Controller, Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 17
Source: Brave New World (1932)

Happiness, Universe

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

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: When God Whispers Your Name

Understanding

“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.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Truth, Heart

“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.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Wisdom, Justice, Law

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

Martin Buber (1878–1965) German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian

Falseness

“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.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

Memory, Joy

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

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Kiss of a Demon King

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

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

1960s, I Have A Dream (1963)
Source: I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
Context: When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"