God Quotes
Quotes about God
727 quotes
- “For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of ...” — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News For The Bedraggled, Beat-up, And Burnt Out
- “Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessnes...” — Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “It's a mean story, Helen fumed. An absentee father who demands that his children put him at the center of their lives an...” — Mark Salzman, Lying Awake
- “They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do go...” — Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree
- “Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wan...” — William Nicholson, Shadowlands
- “But we all suffer. For we all prize and love; and in this present existence of ours, prizing and loving yield suffering....” — Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament For A Son
- “The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are n...” — Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “He flashed the warmest smile I'd ever seen, and my heart felt comforted. Maybe D.J. saw my insecurities, my fears. Maybe...” — Janice Thompson, Fools Rush In
- “And so must learn to love with our mouths and voices, as well as with our eyes, flesh, heart, brains, and with everythin...” — Mike Mason
- “The hypothesis of God, for instance, gives an incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know absolu...” — Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic
- “I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to...” — Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
- “Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In ou...” — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
- “If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rath...” — Keith Green
- “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; which means that if the rest of us want to get close to God, we seek them out-no...” — Sarah Arthur, The One Year Daily Grind
- “The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But o...” — Francis A. Schaeffer, Art & The Bible
- “Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his d...” — Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
- “The glory of God is the living man, but the life of man is the vision of God', says St. Irenaeus, getting to the heart o...” — Pope Benedict Xvi, The Spirit Of The Liturgy
- “I've been a Christian since I was a little girl. But my Christianity is a muddy mess of thoughts and opinions and making...” — Cindy Martinusen Coloma, Caleb + Kate
- “If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the wa...” — Carl Sagan, Contact
- “You view the gods as entities without,"Montolio tried to explain. "You see them as physical beings trying to control our...” — R.a. Salvatore, Sojourn
- “Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's ...” — Barry M. Goldwater
- “The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and ...” — Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
- “These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think...” — Yann Martel, Life Of Pi
- “Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these ...” — Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
- “If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God ...” — Florence Nightingale
- “I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefi...” — Brother Andrew, The Narrow Road: Stories Of Those Who Walk This Road Together
- “THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflec...” — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up And Salute The Sun: The Writings Of Suzy Kassem
- “Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you thin...” — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
- “As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a 2nd time from the hand of the pastor, so love comes from ...” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters And Papers From Prison
- “I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly i...” — John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
- “Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us ...” — Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover A Secretly Incredible Life In An Ordinary World
- “I had a dream about you. You were writing names and numbers in a book, and I asked if that was a phone book or the Book ...” — Jarod Kintz, We Had A #dream About You
- “Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to kn...” — David O. Mckay
- “The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; ...” — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
- “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty,...” — Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
- “If you could really see that tree over there,"Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over.""Really? But...” — Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons For Creating The Life You Want
- “The destiny of your soul is not predicated upon acceptance of a specific dogma that happens to be "correct."A loving God...” — Mark Ireland
- “Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep f...” — C.s. Lewis, The Collected Letters Of C. S. Lewis, Volume Lll: Narnia, Cambridge, And Joy
- “If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I c...” — Harold S. Kushner
- “He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly...” — Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
- “If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles evil, how can faith know its...” — Gary Parker
- “I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is...” — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
- “If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I would sell my sould to m...” — James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
- “It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call...” — Alan W. Watts, Zen And The Beat Way
- “...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True,...” — Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes Of God
- “Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoul...” — Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season Of Mists
- “A man of God would never burn or harm a temple of any kind - regardless of religion. A true man of God would see every t...” — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up And Salute The Sun: The Writings Of Suzy Kassem
- “I believe that a godly home is a foretaste of heaven. Our homes, imperfect as they are, must be a haven from the chaos o...” — Jani Ortlund
- “"If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable ...” — William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith
- “The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good no...” — Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authentic Contemporary Faith