God Quotes
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Right from the start Abigail used to moan and fidget as her hair was relaxed or braided or thermally reconditioned, but her dad was determined that his child wasn’t going to embarrass him in public. That all stopped when Abigail turned eleven and calmly announced that she had ChildLine on speed‑dial and the next person who came near her with a hair extension, chemical straightener, or, God forbid, a hot comb, was going to end up explaining their actions to Social Services.
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God never violates the trust we put in Him.
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Laughter is God's blessing.
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Ef you take a sword an’ dror it,An’ go stick a feller thru,Guv’mint ain’t to answer for it,God’ll send the bill to you.
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The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.
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There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.
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I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people - intellectuals and well-educated people in particular.
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I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!
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God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
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An important step in getting to know God is to realize how available he is to us. In learning to hear God, it helps us to take on faith the fact that we are already in his presence. If we must make ourselves worthy of his presence first, we will never get there.
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Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the water pots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves.
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I'm going to look the way God intends me to look... with a little help from Manolo Blahnik.
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The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.
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When God shuts a door, He opens a window.
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Sometimes he feels as though God is nothing more than a set of jaws that bites down on his heart.
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You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.
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God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.
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I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.
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God made you a masterpiece - be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.
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If you are not guided by God, you will be guided by something or someone else.
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If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?
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Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.
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Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.
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My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.
