Best 15127 quotes in «god quotes» category

I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

I've had people say to me, 'Look at the sky, the fields, the ocean, the beautiful sunset. Isn't that proof positive of God?' Following that line of thought, look at the magnificent rainbows after a big rainstorm. Isn't that proof positive that God is gay?

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.

I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out of a man-to-man thing.

I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.

I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.

I was going as soon as the ball hit the bat, it was lucky that it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to God I was safe.

I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

I will send a shower of roses.

I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

I wonder if to stare into the face of God will drive me crazy. (I wonder who would blink first.)

I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of these millions.

Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.

I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we have all the answers. The church has to get out of propaganda. The future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ... We cannot say we have the only truth.

Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.

Jesus says God is love. I would like to change it. I would like to say love is God. When you say God is love, love is only one of the qualities of God; he may have other qualities: wisdom, justice, etcetera. To me, love is God; godliness is only one of the qualities of love. There is no other God than the fragrance of love. But the fragrance can arise only in deep meditation.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

Jesus taught that your highest priority must be your relationship with Him. If anything detracts you from that relationship, that activity is not from God. God will not ask you to do something that hinders your relationship with Christ.

Jesus’ words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover.

Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.

Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.

Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else - You are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here in this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others.

Krishna is God, the source of all that exists, the cause of all that is, was, or ever will be.

Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Know with certainty that there is a God, and that there exists a world beyond this one - the world of souls.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ's strength.