God Quotes

David Foster Wallace

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?""I give.""You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

Oscar Wilde

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

C.S. Lewis

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

Anonymous

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Mahatma Gandhi

God has no religion.

Shannon L. Alder

People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.

Shannon L. Alder

The Anatomy of Conflict:If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is no caring. If there is no caring then there is no understanding. If there is no understanding then there is no compassion. If there is no compassion then there is no empathy. If there is no empathy then there is no forgiveness. If there is no forgiveness then there is no kindness. If there is no kindness then there is no honesty. If there is no honesty then there is no love. If there is no love then God doesn't reside there. If God doesn't reside there then there is no peace. If there is no peace then there is no happiness. If there is no happiness ----then there IS CONFLICT BECAUSE THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION!

John Fowles

Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses, he did not believe in islands, he did not believe in God. His father, the king, told him that such things did not exist. As there were no princesses or islands in his father's domains, and no sign of God, the young prince believed his father.But then, one day, the prince ran away from his palace. He came to the next land. There, to his astonishment, from every coast he saw islands, and on these islands, strange and troubling creatures whom he dared not name. As he was searching for a boat, a man in full evening dress approached him along the shore.Are those real islands?' asked the young prince.Of course they are real islands,' said the man in evening dress.And those strange and troubling creatures?'They are all genuine and authentic princesses.'Then God must exist!' cried the prince.I am God,' replied the man in full evening dress, with a bow.The young prince returned home as quickly as he could.So you are back,' said the father, the king.I have seen islands, I have seen princesses, I have seen God,' said the prince reproachfully. The king was unmoved.Neither real islands, nor real princesses, I have seen God,' said the prince reproachfully.The king was unmoved.Neither real islands, nor real princesses, nor a real God exist.'I saw them!'Tell me how God was dressed.'God was in full evening dress.'Were the sleeves of his coat rolled back?'The prince remembered that they had been. The king smiled.That is the uniform of a magician. You have been deceived.'At this, the prince returned to the next land, and went to the same shore, where once again he came upon the man in full evening dress.My father the king has told me who you are,' said the young prince indignantly. 'You deceived me last time, but not again. Now I know that those are not real islands and real princesses, because you are a magician.'The man on the shore smiled.It is you who are deceived, my boy. In your father's kingdom there are many islands and many princesses. But you are under your father's spell, so you cannot see them.'The prince pensively returned home. When he saw his father, he looked him in the eyes.Father, is it true that you are not a real king, but only a magician?'The king smiled, and rolled back his sleeves.Yes, my son, I am only a magician.'Then the man on the shore was God.'The man on the shore was another magician.'I must know the real truth, the truth beyond magic.'There is no truth beyond magic,' said the king.The prince was full of sadness.He said, 'I will kill myself.'The king by magic caused death to appear. Death stood in the door and beckoned to the prince. The prince shuddered. He remembered the beautiful but unreal islands and the unreal but beautiful princesses.Very well,' he said. 'I can bear it.'You see, my son,' said the king, 'you too now begin to be a magician.

Steve Maraboli

Don’t be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn’t allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand orchestration. The devil always has you right were God wants you.

Daniel Mangena

How sad that for some, the idea of God is the perfect excuse to see problems in their life and do nothing about it.

Bart D. Ehrman

One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. They are taught critical approaches to Scripture, they learn about the discrepancies and contradictions, they discover all sorts of historical errors and mistakes, they come to realize that it is difficult to know whether Moses existed or what Jesus actually said and did, they find that there are other books that were at one time considered canonical but that ultimately did not become part of Scripture (for example, other Gospels and Apocalypses), they come to recognize that a good number of the books of the Bible are pseudonymous (for example, written in the name of an apostle by someone else), that in fact we don't have the original copies of any of the biblical books but only copies made centuries later, all of which have been altered. They learn all of this, and yet when they enter church ministry they appear to put it back on the shelf. For reasons I will explore in the conclusion, pastors are, as a rule, reluctant to teach what they learned about the Bible in seminary.

Cormac McCarthy

Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing...

Evelyn Waugh

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him.

Victoria Aveyard

...and who looks at a shadow when then have a flame? Who would ever choose a monster over a god?

Richard Kadrey

Fuck you, angel. Fuck you and all God's little prison bitches. He slips you some cigarettes and a con job smile and you run off to do his dirty work for him. Go and scare some sinners. No one's listening to you here.

Osayi Osar-Emokpae

There's a difference between waiting with patient expectation, and waiting because you never know what God will do. If you don't know how God thinks or what God wants to do in your life, read the Bible. When you know what God wants you to do, go out there and do it and see God work his wonderful mission through you.The whole time you thought you were waiting on God, but the whole time God was WAITING ON YOU.

Anonymous

May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hillary Jordan

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

John Piper

The logic of the Bible says: Act according to God's "will of command," not according to his "will of decree." God's "will of decree" is whatever comes to pass. "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that" (James 4:15). God's "will of decree" ordained that his Son be betrayed (Luke 22:22), ridiculed (Isaiah 53:3), mocked (Luke 18:32), flogged (Matthew 20:19), forsaken (Matthew 26:31), pierced (John 19:37), and killed (Mark 9:31). But the Bible teaches us plainly that we should not betray, ridicule, mock, flog, forsake, pierce, or kill innocent people. That is God's "will of command." We do not look at the death of Jesus, clearly willed by God, and conclude that killing Jesus is good and that we should join the mockers.

Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

It doesn't sound logical to say that a man is an atheist just because he's probably someonewho knows his own God...personally.

Charlaine Harris

Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in appreciation.

D. H. Lawrence

Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base...

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I Am ! Two powerful words.... You must confess... I Am who God called me to be. I Am a Success. I Am not what you think of me. I Am more than a conqueror. I Am walking by Faith. I Am a Gift.

Suzy Kassem

TRUTHWhenever you stand up For your conscience, Be prepared to be hated By the wicked. But never, ever,Let that scare you;For whenever you Stand up for God, By him, You are loved.

Jerome K. Jerome

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.

Gustave Flaubert

I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker’s head if they’re not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it’s bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God’s face when it’s bitter

Carson McCullers

Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.

Epictetus

Is it not the same distance to God everywhere?

Teresa of Ávila

But, as I know that strength arising from obedience has a way of simplifying things which seem impossible, my will very gladly resolves to attempt this task although the prospect seems to cause my physical nature great distress; for the Lord has not given me strength enough to enable me to wrestle continually both with sickness and with occupations of many kinds without feeling a great physical strain. May He Who has helped me by doing other and more difficult things for me help also in this: in His mercy I put my trust.

Sabah Carrim

An ugly face needs make-up; that's why Man needs religion.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.

Nafisa Haji

He knows what lies before them, and what is after them, and they comprehend not anything of His knowledge save such as He wills.' i traced the words with my finger, over and over again, and realize what i did not before. that not all questions can be answered. that some truths are beyond the capacity of our minds to understand.

Tim Keel

We imagine that our theological/conceptual systems are the means by which we know God as God is. I truly believe that such postures and perspectives put us in danger of conceptual idolatry, worshiping our ideas of and frameworks for God.

Anne Holm

Yes, he had made a good choice after all when he had chosen the God of the green pasture and the still waters! He was very powerful, and the fact that He expected you to think for yourself and do something in return for His help did not matter, as long as you could work things out.

John Milton

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of allHim whom to love is to obey, and keepHis great command!

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I would suggest that many of our perceived defeats are actually God saving us from the things that would have defeated us had we actually achieved them.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I would rather not know what light is, rather than have it and then lose it. For then the darkness that it momentarily lit becomes insufferably darker. But I must remember that God is the light that never goes out in a world where darkness will.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I look around at people and I often wonder if the darkness within them has any idea that there could be something other than darkness.

John Birch

Reveal yourself dear Lord, this day in the special places where we can be alone.

Sonal Takalkar

She replied," Risk of keeping me! For whom & for what? The people like me never fit in the happy families. I'm cursed by faith & kicked out by success."God replied,"' Love may not be made for you & I believed you. I have given you the second chance to be there with your people for a support. Because sometimes, negativity rises the positive people. You are that reason.

Sonal Takalkar

She said, Jesus, the person who shoot me straight into the heart, why torturing me by being nice? "She said, Jesus, the person who shoot me straight into the heart, why torturing me by being nice?Jesus said, Because he is a nice person. This is the purpose of your life, to remain exist. I make love to see everyone happy. Sometimes, people trying to teach you the lessons which you should learn. They are not evil. They are holy humans. My daughter, listen carefully, you chose ruling path to persuade one king & now that king will show punish you till your last breath. You are my daughter. Endure it. Absorb it. Let it bleed. Nothing will happen wrong to you. If you made a mistake, accept it. Nothing is more honest than to discuss your own mistake & be ready to pay the cost for it. Accept the torture by free heart & smiling face. You are my soldier & you have to come back to me like soldier. So pick up the every broken piece & stitch it back BY YOUR OWN. YOU DON’T NEED ANY KING TO HEAL YOU. IT’S MY ORDER. SEE YOU AGAIN MY CHILD.Jesus said, Because he is a nice person. This is the purpose of your life, to remain exist. I made love to make a love. Sometimes, people trying to teach you the lessons which you should learn. They are not evil. They are holy humans. My daughter, listen carefully, you chose ruling path to persuade one king & now that king will show punish you till your last breath. You are my daughter. Endure it. Absorb it. Let it bleed. Nothing will happen wrong to you. If you made a mistake, accept it. Nothing is more honest that admire your own mistake & be ready to pay the cost for it. Accept the torture by free heart & smiling face. You are my soldier & you have to come back to me like soldier. So pick up the every broken piece & stitch it back BY YOUR OWN. YOU DON’T NEED ANY KING TO HEAL YOU. IT’S MY ORDER. SEE YOU AGAIN MY CHILD.

Germany Kent

If you're reading this, I hope God opens incredible doors for your life this year. Greatness is upon you. You must believe it though.

Criss Jami

God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong.

Rick Warren

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

When hope seems lost or the obstacles appear insurmountable, it's not the fact that neither of those things are true. Rather, it's the fact that we've forgotten the God who declares that they're not.

Amy Gatliff

The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.

Rousseau Jean-Jacques

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

Frédéric Bastiat

...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

Angela N. Blount

Have you ever tried thinking of God as a person instead of an all-powerful vending machine that never gives you the right amount of change? He has feelings too, you know.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Maybe the prayer request that we should start with is that we begin to pray.