God Quotes

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

~ Pope Francis

Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.

~ Ben Shapiro

Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist.

~ Gloria Steinem

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

~ Albert Einstein

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

~ Joseph Smith

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration.

~ William Godwin

Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.

~ Anne Graham Lotz

We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

~ Desmond Tutu

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

~ E. Stanley Jones

Only a god can save us.

~ Martin Heidegger

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

~ Athanasius

God requireth not a uniformity of religion.

~ Roger Williams

I'm married to the street I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about.

~ Trick Daddy

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

~ Anita Brookner

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

~ Ken Kesey

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

~ Jeremy Taylor

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

~ Mojo Nixon

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

~ Bono

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

~ Eckhart Tolle

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.

~ Steve-O

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

~ Adoniram Judson

For the record, I believe in God, but I do not believe in religion, period.

~ Rodrigo Duterte

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

~ Billy Graham

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

~ Billy Graham

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.

~ Joyce Meyer

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

~ Sam Harris

I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views.

~ Ishmael Beah

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

~ Gouverneur Morris

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

~ Karl Barth

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.

~ Juanes

God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion.

~ Huston Smith

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

~ Richard Dawkins