God Quotes

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We’re looking for something, though we’re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

We want God to come and save us. But he won’t. God doesn’t stop levees from failing, he doesn’t stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn’t stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Or perhaps she's just softening me up: she's a Baptist, she'd like me to find Jesus, or vice versa, before it's too late. That kind of thing doesn't run in her family: her mother Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble, naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers, but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.

How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

I don’t think God gives a shit if we have a dog or if a woman wears shorts. I think He gives a shit about whether you’re a good person.

If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just FEEL a prayer.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

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

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

I could prove God statistically.

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

How can those who scorn God revere men?

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

I never cared but for one thing, and that is simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day, doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.

The <i>Declaration of Independence</i> dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

God is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.

If my children wake up on Christmas morning and have someone to thank for putting candy in their stocking, have I no one to thank for putting two feet in mine?

When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects. The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look, but the more you magnify God-made objects, the more precise and intricate they appear.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

God does not play dice with the universe.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Don't try to be a perfectionist. That's God's job.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

I just want to do God's will.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lords side.

Men talk of &#34;finding God,&#34; but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

There will be two kinds of people in the end: Those that will say to God 'Thy will be done' and those to whom God will say 'Thy will be done.'

God's colors all are fast.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given tous fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.

Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.

But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

A man should believe in God through faith, not because of miracles.

Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

To forbid the making of pictures about God would be to forbid thinking about God at all, for man is so made that he has no way to think except in pictures.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God Governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.

You may think the President is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

I could not say I believe � I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of Creation.

God is a verb.

God is a verb.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.