God Quotes

God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.

~ Josemaría Escrivá

God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden... The best gift of the desert is God's presence... The protective love of the Shepherd gives me courage to face the interior journey.

~ Paul E. Miller

A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.

~ Richard J. Foster

Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.

~ Alexandre Dumas

God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.

~ Rachel Held Evans

We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.

~ J.a. Konrath

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

I have always considered Pascal's Wager a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

~ Alan M. Dershowitz

My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

~ Sri Aurobindo

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

~ Martin Amis

God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.

~ Nancy Leigh Demoss

But we all suffer. For we all prize and love; and in this present existence of ours, prizing and loving yield suffering. Love in our world is suffering love. Some do not suffer much, though, for they do not love much. Suffering is for the loving. This, said Jesus, is the command of the Holy One: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. In commanding us to love, God invites us to suffer.

~ Nicholas Wolterstorff

Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter and stammer about God's holiness. We tremble before God's majesty... and yet, we grow squeamish and skittish before God's love.

~ Brennan Manning

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

~ Yann Martel

A Short TestamentWhatever harm I may have doneIn all my life in all your wide creationIf I cannot repair itI beg you to repair it,And then there are all the wounded The poor the deaf the lonely and the oldWhom I have roughly dismissedAs if I were not one of them.Where I have wronged them by itAnd cannot make amendsI ask youTo comfort them to overflowing,And where there are lives I may have withered around me,Or lives of strangers far or nearThat I've destroyed in blind complicity,And if I cannot find themOr have no way to serve them,Remember them. I beg you to remember themWhen winter is overAnd all your unimaginable promisesBurst into song on death's bare branches.

~ Anne Porter

There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

~ Stephen Levine

I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts directed toward God. The essence of the centered life is attention to God in all we think, say and do. It is the growing realization of His presence in our most down-to-earth living.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

God is the name we give to the science we don't understand. Science is the name we give to the God we don't understand.

~ Steve Maraboli

To love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourself.

~ Anonymous

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

When you saw a wounded who cry out for help,you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.

~ Toba Beta

Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.

~ Joris-Karl Huysmans

The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell.

~ Aaron B. Powell

There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He’s got you covered.

~ Mandy Hale

Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

~ Judah Smith

Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely that man was created in God's image. Either/or: either man was created in God's image - and has intestines! - or God lacks intestines and man is not like him.The ancient Gnostics felt as I did at the age of five. In the second century, the Great Gnostic master Valentinus resolved the damnable dilemma by claiming that Jesus ate and drank, but did not defecate.Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil. Since God gave man freedom, we can, if need be, accept the idea that He is not responsible for man's crimes. The responsibility for shit, however, rests entirely with Him, the creator of man.

~ Milan Kundera

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

~ Lao Tzu

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

~ Jerry Stahl

We're more concerned about our own victory over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

~ Jerry Bridges

[Orange] is one of God's favorite colors--- He stuck it right there between red and yellow as the second color in the rainbow. He decorates entire forests with shades of orange every autumn. It shows up in sunrises at the start of the day, sunsets at the end of the day, and in the glow of the moon at the right time of night.

~ Reggie Joiner

Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.

~ Peter Kreeft

I believe that people who are devoutly religious, within any specific religion, have no true respect for the ultimate vastness that is God.

~ Clair Huffaker

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

~ Leonard Ravenhill

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman, and there is only one relationship possible: faith.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.

~ Thomas S. Monson

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 of what happens when man meets God on the mountain in the wilderness. Ultimately, it is the very life of man, man himself as living righteously, that is the true worship of God, but life only becomes real life when it receives its form from looking toward God.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.

~ Marquis De Sade

In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer...I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.

~ Norman Schwarzkopf

To question the world around us and all its complexities is not blasphamy, but simply using the mind God gave us for its intended purpous. God is an artist. Artist do not create to have someone just glance and say That is pretty. Artist want viewers to look closer, deeper--to really see what they have created--not just glance.

~ Cristina Marrero