Quotes about God

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“What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?”

“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”

“We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.”

“If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.”

“Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God”

“Question for God every morning:

What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?”

“You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.”

“God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love”

“When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.”

“Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.”

“[Arguments about God are] like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.”

“Silence is the only language god speaks.”

“We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.”

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. Even so, God cannot save them from fools.”

“If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents.”

“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”

“Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth. And any time any one violates your human rights, you can take them to the world court.”

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

“God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.”

“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”

“Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.”

“‎Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it”

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”

“God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's "yes." Sometimes the answer is "no." Sometimes it's "you gotta be kidding.”

“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”

“The blood of Abraham,1 God’s father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God—an anguished cry for peace.”

“Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.”

“If you feel far from God, guess who moved?”

“God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.”

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God….. We must not….. assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.”

“Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.”

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him”

“And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.”

“My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.”

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”

“On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.”

“Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way… God can give us the perfect way.”

“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”

“God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.”

“You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”

“I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)”

“Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?”

“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.”

“You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naïve. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.”

“Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!”

“Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.”

“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.”

“Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.”

“God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.”

“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”

“I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.”

“God does not play games with His loyal servants", said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice.
"Whoopee", said Crowley.”

“I had an accident."

"That seemes to happen a lot."

"It wasn't my fault."

"It never is."

"I just have bad luck."

"Or you're just trouble."

"You got a problem with that?"

"No problem at all."

"Oh my God! Are you going to help or not?”

“The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.”

“God is not good, or else he could do better.”

“My God died young. Theolatry i found
Degrading, and its premises, unsound.
No free man needs God; but was I free?”

“God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. — And we — we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.”

“Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.”

“Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.”

“There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!”

“If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.”

“If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.”

“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”

“Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.”

“The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.”

“I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.”

“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”

“God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil….”

“and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.”

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”

“People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”

“There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience…”

“A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.”

“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, the women together ought to be able to turn back and get it right side up again! and now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.”

“Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.”

“I looked up in the sky and trusted in God.”

“To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.”

“Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.”

“Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks
To murder men and gie God thanks
Desist for shame, proceed no further
God won't accept your thanks for murder.”

“Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.”

“Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad (Latin).”

“Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet… Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.”

“Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.”

“(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.”

“Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.”

“I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.”

“He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him!”

“The only thing that separates any one of us from excellence is fear and the opposite of fear is faith. I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God’s business.”

“I used to be so good at that kind of thing," Skulduggery said quietly.
"Well, my morale is certainly boosted," Valkyrie informed him.
"Really?"
"god no. That was terrible”

“God put us here on this carnival ride, we close our eyes never knowing where it will take us next.”

“Religion means to know God and to love Him.”

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”

“God abhors a naked singularity.”

“In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.”

“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”

“The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.”

“When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.”

“I was wrong. God's law is only Love.”

“Explore daily the will of God.”