God Quotes
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Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God? Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia -
Only God knows how much I love you.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Looking back, the way I see it, there was something slightly deluded about my belief - what that meant to me - but with that delusion came of lot of happiness. Life was really black and white: if you do these things now, God will you invite you to his house where you will love forever and everything will be happy forever. That's what I believed, and that makes life pretty sweet. I do miss it.
Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson -
To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.
B. B. Warfield -
So the power of prayer is found, not in convincing God of my agenda, but in waiting upon Him to hear His agenda.
Bob Sorge -
Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.
Denzel Washington -
The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God.
Bran Ferren -
True knowledge is that knowledge which makes man after self-realization or union with God assert that his real Self is in everything and everybody.
Meher Baba
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We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
C. S. Lewis -
I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation.
Newt Gingrich -
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
Walter M. Miller, Jr. -
[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.
Oprah Winfrey -
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect.
John Calvin
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I soon discovered that man's importunity is God's opportunity. he uses our problems as building materials for his miracles. I began to understand that this was my first lesson in learning to trust him completely, my first steps on the path to complete dependence on, and obedience to, his guidance.
Corrie Ten Boom -
Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.
John Hales -
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
Mahatma Gandhi -
True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
Philip James Bailey -
Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief. Constant praying is the way of 'rejoicing perpetually', for by this means we ask from God alleviation in connection with all our distresses.
John Calvin -
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Khalil Gibran
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Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good.
Baruch Spinoza -
The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God.
R. A. Torrey -
You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.
Donald Miller