God Quotes
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No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
John Locke Nazareth -
When the believer is faced with a decision regarding a questionable matter, he should never proceed unless he has complete peace about it. If there is nothing wrong with it, then God is able to give complete peace.
Curtis Hutson
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I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.
Mariano Rivera -
When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
As to why some are touched by the law and others not, so that some receive and others scorn the offer of grace...this is the hidden will of God, Who, according to His own counsel, ordains such persons as He wills to receive and partake of the mercy preached and offered.
Martin Luther -
One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.
Walter Hilton -
One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.
Iain Banks -
This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon
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We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
C. S. Lewis -
We always joke that our road crew will have to wheelchair us up onstage soon because this is what we do. This is what we love to do. This is what God put us on earth to do until the day we take our last breath.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.
D. A. Carson -
Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
John Ruskin -
The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.
George Barna -
There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.
Epictetus
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In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.
Phillip E. Johnson -
If there was such a thing, in the beginning, God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.
Albert Einstein -
Do not discuss God and his reason, does not discuss the motherland and the nation.
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar -
There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same! Jesus was lost in his love for God. His donkey was drunk with barley.
Rumi -
A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!
Emily Dickinson -
Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.
Madame de Stael
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Life lives on life - it is cruel, but it is God's will. And it is for our good, of course, because if there weren't little animals to eat up the young mussels, our canals would be choked by those shellfish, for each mother has more than a thousand young ones at a time!
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek -
When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.
Charles E. Fuller -
Here in a place as far from God as one can go and still freeze.
Colin Falconer