God Quotes
-
God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.
-
I thought about taking a shower but I could see the headlines: MAILMAN CAUGHT DRINKING THE BLOOD OF GOD AND TAKING A SHOWER, NAKED, IN A ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. ...I found out later that mail for the church was delivered to the parish house around the corner. But now, of course, I knew where to... shower when I'm down and out.
-
For one cannot assume that God exists to help people who are too cowardly and too lazy to help themselves and think that God exists only to make up for the weakness of mankind. He does not exist for that purpose. He has always, at all times, blessed only those who were prepared to fight their own battles.
-
God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
-
Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.
-
Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.
-
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
-
Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion.” Anyone who chose to begin worshiping a new god was welcome to do so and was not required or expected to leave behind any previous practices of worship or make an exclusive commitment to this one deity.
-
It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of nurturance known as The Goddess, so revered in ancient times and being rediscovered by women today.
-
A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.
-
The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.
-
For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.
-
God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.
-
I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.
-
God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.
-
For those whom God to ruin has design'd,He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
-
God, you’re sexy when you talk Psy.
-
My speed is a gift from God, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, it all comes from him.
-
To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.
-
God is righteous and just, holy and tender, responsive and sympathetic. He is willing-anxious even-to hear from you. Moreover, he is willing to act on your behalf.
-
If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.
-
He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.
-
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
-
In their condescending assumption that belief in God could only be the product of wishful thinking, stupidity, ignorance, or intellectual dishonesty; in their corresponding refusal seriously to consider the possibility that that belief might be true and the arguments for it sound; and in their glib supposition that the only rational considerations relevant to the question are “scientific” ones, rather than philosophical; in all of these attitudes, Flew’s critics manifest the quintessential mindset of modern secularism. And insofar as its self-satisfied a priori dismissal of outsiders as benighted, and of defectors as wicked or mad, insulates it from ever having to deal with serious criticism, it is a mindset that echoes the closed-minded prejudice and irrationality it typically attributes to religious believers themselves.
