Quotes about God

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“I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;
Maelström of passions in that hidden sea
Whose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;
And in small compass the dark waters cram.”

“We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.”

“Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.”

“Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.”

“The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas.
The latter will get you to heaven.
Take your pick.”

“If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?”

“They wanted them to look like the Gods.
God doesn't look like this.”

“Always the bridesmaid, never the bride."
Always the godfather, never the god".”

“Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.”

“God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.”

“You were not put on this Earth just to get in touch with god”

“The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.”

“God, sometimes you just don't come through. Do you need a woman to look after you?”

“But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.”

“… if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.”

“Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.”

“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.”

“Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.”

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”

“You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.”

“No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love.”

“I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I…”

“love is the every only god”

“I felt very close to God…. My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.”

“… when we say, 'I don't understand,' God replies, 'I don't care.' ”.”

“The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963”

“… do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.”

“Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.”

“Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying”

“God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.”

“When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.”

“Can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming 'Your cats! Give us all your god-damned cats!”

“We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.”

“Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.”

“It's not the gods
But our own hearts
We need to fear.
The evil starts
Against all odds
Not there but here.”

“Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.”

“[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.”

“Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.”

“No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.”

“If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?”

“The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.”

“The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.”

“Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.”

“Why is it that there are always these problems and misunderstandings between men and women? Surely it would have been better if God had made only one sort of person, and the children had come by some other means, with the rain perhaps.”

“Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.”

“If you don't feel as close to God today as you did yesterday, who moved?”

“God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”

“I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.”

“The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.'

'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.”

“It’s not so much that nothing means
anything but more that it keeps meaning
nothing.
there’s no release, just gurus and self-
appointed gods and hucksters.
the more people say, the less there is to say.
even the best books are dry sawdust.”

“Oh… God. What was a male supposed to do in this situation?
"I'm sorry," he muttered. "If I… uh, hurt your feelings or something."
She glared at him. "I'm not hurt. I'm pissed off and sexually frustrated.”

“Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is Himself the way”

“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty.

As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or could live in them all. It's obvious, it stares you in the fact. Therebe a God and heknow anything about us.”

“Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.”

“The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him — that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”

“The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.”

“Zeus needed someone to blame, so of course he’d picked the handsomest, most talented, most popular god in the pantheon: me.”

“God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.”

“As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.”

“God never does anything accidentally…”

“I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.”

“My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.”

“When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.”

“God pity the poor novelist.”

“God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.”

“Oh, Gods."
His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.”

“There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.”

“Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me.”

“Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.”

“An honest man's the noblest work of God”

“Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.”

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”

“Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.”

“God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.”

“Pheoby, yuh got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God and they got tuh find out about livin fuh theyselves.”

“Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.”

“I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.”

“But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?”

“To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.”

“I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a tea cup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.”

“If God had wanted me to lose weight he would have made sure there was creamed spinach for dessert.”

“For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”

“God owns heaven but He craves the earth.”

“You ever notice that people who believe in creationism look really unevolved? Eyes real close together, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day." Yeah, looks like he rushed it.”

“Honest to god, Clare, you act like the dress is more important than you being shot!”
Of course it is! It’s a Versace, you idiot! Bring help! I’m going to save this dress at all costs.” - Sam to Clare”

“As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.”

“Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.”

“You have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.”

“Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.”

“Tell me the name of your best friend. (Sunshine)
Wulf Tryggvason. (Talon)
Oh my God, you just answered a question. I think the world may end over it. (Sunshine)”

“Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.”

“We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.”

“God is in the rain.”

“For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.”

“Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient”

“How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself.”

“When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.”

“[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer….
And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him.
I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.”

“Akri won't let me eat any of them nasty gods. What's the world coming to when a demon gots to beg for tidbits… not eve a finger sandwich or a single knuckle. Tragic. Terribly tragic.”