Best 15127 quotes in «god quotes» category

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

I had always been told the bible was a book about love, but I couldn't find enough love in it to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the bible; God is vengeance. There is no other book between whose covers life is so cheap.

I had an IQ test. The results came back negative.

I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when suddenly God saw me. I felt His gaze inside my head and on my hands....I flew into a rage against so crude an indiscretion, I blasphemed....He never looked at me again....I had the more difficulty getting rid of Him the Holy Ghost in that He had installed Himself at the back of my head....I collared the Holy Ghost in the cellar and threw Him out.

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.

I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth, O someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

I have lived, And seen God's hand thro a life time, And all was for the best.

I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

I have nothing to hide. I am a servant of the living God. He is the only one I answer to.

I hesitate to add, but I will, that this is fun. God means Christianity to be fun. There is to be a reality of love and communication in the Christian-to-Christian relationship, individually and corporately, which is completely and truly personal.

I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.

I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time.

I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man. More especially, since it is impossible for me to have any positive, clear idea of that which is infinite and incomprehensible, I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

I know that I can never be alone as God is there with me.

I know God exits, but I don't know where.

I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.

I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her life.

I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.

I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. ... But I doubt.

Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe - they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgments [which assumes absolute values] - but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.

I mean by the universe, the aggregate of all things that have being in themselves; and so do all men else. And because God has a being, it follows that he is either the whole universe, or part of it. Nor does his Lordship go about to disprove it, but only seems to wonder at it.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

I'm going to go out Monday through Friday and work hard and try to help this team win, because God knows we need a win.

I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.

I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.

I'm going to kill that god of yours, next. Then we'll see what you can do, and what you can't.

I'm not leading them to some false God or something like that.

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.

In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man and built up the human species, even a most fervent atheist will wonder if Darwin found the visible road but not the invisible mechanism.

In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.

In a lot of minds, God is big enough to raise dead people, but He's not big enough to deal with our running.