God Quotes

I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.

Barbara Brown Taylor
- Wonder
- Goodness
- Failed
The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"

R. C. Sproul
- Why
- Way
- Question

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

Martin Sheen
- Church
- Jesus
- Beginning
Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

Bob Goff
- God
- Waiting
- Chases
The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

K. P. Yohannan
- Up
- Good
- God
I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't sit well in my mouth. One of my beefs is the patriarchal setup. Having the 'he, he, he, God, God, God, king, king, king' stuff was hard for me.

Patty Griffin
- Up
- Listening
- King
I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

John Stuart Mill
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else.

H. P. Lovecraft
- Why
- Christian
- Animal