God Quotes

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.

~ Dean Koontz

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship—be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles—is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.

~ David Foster Wallace

I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

All that you touchYou Change.All that you ChangeChanges you.The only lasting truthis Change.Godis Change.

~ Octavia E. Butler

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

~ Charlotte Brontë

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

~ Dan Brown

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

~ Criss Jami

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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.

~ Galileo Galilei

Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.

~ Dan Brown

Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

~ C.s. Lewis

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

~ Bertrand Russell

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

~ Voltaire

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

~ Rob Bell

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

~ C.s. Lewis

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

~ John Lennon

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.

~ Steven Weinberg

We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.

~ Sam Harris

God's Final Message to His Creation:'We apologize for the inconvenience.

~ Douglas Adams

There is but one good, that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

~ C.s. Lewis

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

~ Albert Einstein

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.After that I liked jazz music.Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.

~ Donald Miller

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

~ Albert Einstein

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

~ Carl Sagan

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

~ Salman Rushdie

Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.

~ Carolyn Mcculley

Let me put it this way, my father believed in a righteous God. Deus volt, that was his motto- 'because God wills it.' It was the Crusaders' motto, and they went into battle and were slaughtered just like my father. And when I saw him lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.

~ Cassandra Clare

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one yes from God.

~ Tyler Perry

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

~ Victor Hugo

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

~ C.s. Lewis

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

~ Haruki Murakami

Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.

~ Alan W. Watts

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

~ Francis Chan

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

~ Christopher Hitchens

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

~ Corrie Ten Boom