God Quotes
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A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.
Marvin Olasky
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The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's existence. ...eventually a cybernetically minded twenty-first century version of Kant will appear in order to present a tedious 'proof' that such adventures are futile.
Jaron Lanier
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There are only two loves, whence originate all our wishes and all our actions: the love of God which does all for God and which God rewards and the love of ourselves and of the world, which does not refer to God what should be referred to him and which for that very reason becomes evil.
Pasquier Quesnel
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Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.
M. R. DeHaan
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la ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu... (There is no god but God and Muhammed [is His prophet
Saddam Hussein
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To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
Tasha Smith
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
Randall Terry
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Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
Thomas Carlyle
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Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.
Betty Smith
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The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God.
Ernest Holmes
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On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
Edith Stein
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When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
Oswald Chambers
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
Samuel Pepys
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
Saadi
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If I were tied to the letter of the Scriptures and rigid dogma, I believe I could not have painted these profoundly felt paintings about the Eucharist and the 'Pentecost' religious paintings, he made c. 1909-11) I had to be artistically free - not have God before me. like a steely Assyrian ruler, but God in me, hot and holy like Christ's love.
Emil Nolde
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The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
John Calvin
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Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.
Christopher Hitchens
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If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
Johannes Tauler
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It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.
R. C. Sproul
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There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
Katherine Paterson
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The best thing of all is God is with us.
John Wesley
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
Abraham Joshua Heschel