God Quotes

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

~ George Müller

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

~ Mother Teresa

I fear God and respect God and love God.

~ Brett Ratner

Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.

~ Tasha Smith

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

~ J. D. Salinger

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God... Reverence to God and reverence for one's neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

~ Robert Baden-Powell

While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain from using legal prosecution or violent reaction to those who do not show the same respect. My basis for this claim is nothing other than the holiest source of Islam, the Quran.

~ Mustafa Akyol

May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.

~ Kinky Friedman

I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life - in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God.

~ Frank Sinatra

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

~ Stockwell Day

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

~ Giacomo Casanova

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

~ Michael Jordan

I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

India was secular even when Muslims hadn't come here and Christians hadn't set foot on this soil. It is not as if India became secular after they came. They came with their own modes of worship, and they, too, were given a place of honor and respect. They had the freedom to worship God as per their wish and inclination.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treated with respect. Every person is also a citizen of some country. In their country, they have rights and responsibilities; in every other country, they are a guest.

~ James Lankford

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

~ Lee Iacocca

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.

~ James Lovelock

I have respect for anyone who's going to go out and make a movie for a small budget and turn it into a phenomenon. God bless you. Please keep making movies. That's great. But it's not what entertains me.

~ Katie Aselton

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

~ Ravi Shankar

The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.

~ Hakeem Olajuwon

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

~ Alphonsus Liguori

The age of the Earth makes no difference with respect to Christ's atoning sacrifice for humanity's sin or to the nature and character of God, Earth's age has no bearing on any of the historic Christian doctrines. No mention of Earth's age appears in even the most detailed creedal statements.

~ Hugh Ross

Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore.

~ William P. Young

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

~ Pope Paul Vi

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

~ Jim Elliot

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!

~ Ken Hensley

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

~ Arthur Young

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

~ Alan Watts

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

~ Aeschylus

We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.

~ Fred Hammond

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

~ Junipero Serra

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

~ Ray Manzarek

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

~ Smokey Robinson

'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators.

~ Molly Ivins

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.

~ Smokey Robinson

I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.

~ Joel Osteen

Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.

~ Vin Scully