God Quotes
-
I'm a baseball player who likes to enjoy himself and leave everything to God. He knows what'll happen.
-
I so wish people had seen it your way, but I think too many of us have read the story to say it gives European white males carte blanche to play God over creation; so `having dominion' gives them a license to pollute and exploit.
-
Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.
-
God never violates the trust we put in Him.
-
Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.
-
Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.
-
I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.
-
Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.
-
Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.
-
Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.
-
There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?
-
We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.
-
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
-
In the end, will truth matter? Of course truth will matter. Truth isn't relative. But there's going to be a great sacrifice on the way to getting truth to matter to us again, to finding out why it does, and God knows what shape that sacrifice will take.
-
One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.
-
Everything was fading, all the lights in the room going out. And the sun, too. It was all so odd, as if the whole world had stepped out, run away from her—left her. Alone. In the dark. God. Everything was as black as Andrés Segovia’s eyes.
-
God does not give beforehand the grace with which to bear His blows; He does not heal before he smites. In your terror at the thought of parting with Horace, you left entirely out of account the sustaining power that would hold you up and bear you through those awful moments; you suffered in advance, and wholly in your own strength. But how many, how many persons I have heard say, ‘I am a marvel to myself! This blow, so long dreaded, has not slain me, as I ever believed it would; I stagger under it, but I live to wonder at the strength God gives me, and in which I bear it.
-
Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.
-
God isn't interested in stock phrases. Talk to him. Talk to the Father sincerely.
-
I feel like everybody that's successful owes everything to God.
-
Salvation is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.
-
I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-
The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. The goal of marriage is unity and oneness, as well as self-development. Paradoxically, the more we serve one another, the greater is our spiritual and emotional growth.
-
Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family.
