Best 15127 quotes in «god quotes» category

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

No matter how entrenched in the imagination of the average Christian the image of a male God might be, theological tradition has never assigned sex to God.

No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He, Unswervingly believes in me.

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

No matter what the circumstances, we can be grateful that God fulfills His promises, that our faith is sufficient to sustain us, and that our eternal life is assured.

No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it.

No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.

No mercy goes unpunished by the angry gods.

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it.

No one is saved by good works (Ephesians 2:8-9), but every Christian has been saved for good works (verse 10).

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

Not a step can we take in any direction without perceiving the most extraordinary traces of design; and the skill everywhere conspicuous is calculated in so vast a proportion of instances to promote the happiness of living creatures, and especially of ourselves, that we feel no hesitation in concluding that, if we knew the whole scheme of Providence, every part would appear to be in harmony with a plan of absolute benevolence.

Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.

Not God with wine, nor death, nor hate for a cry, but God with a song

Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than He used to be.

Nothing can separate you from His love, absolutely nothing, neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature... We do not need to beg Him to bless us, He simply cannot help it. Therefore God is enough! God is enough for time, God is enough for eternity. God is enough!

Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Nothing like a little chest pain to restore your faith.

Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.

Not one of the first six [U.S.] presidents was an orthodox Christian. Most of the founders were Deists, who "doubted that Christ was a god" and equated God with "the power behind nature, as discerned by science.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Not surprisingly, the place we're most likely to experience testing is exactly where we struggle most to trust God.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

O Eternal God, now may it please you to burn in love so that we become the limbs fashioned in the love you felt when you begot your Son at the first dawn before all creation. And consider this need which falls upon us, take it from us for the sake of your Son, and lead us to the joy of your salvation.

Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.

Of course God enjoys a good prank as much as the next infallible deity.

Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and that he thought it most interesting that a calculus which so strongly appealed to the human mind by its intrinsic beauty and symmetry should prove to be especially adapted to the study of natural phenomena. The mind of man and that of Nature's God must work in the same channels.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

Of the Divine character of the Bible, I think, no man who deals honestly with his own mind and heart can entertain a reasonable doubt, For myself, I must say, that having for many years made the evidences of Christianity the subject of close study, the result has been a firm and increasing conviction of the authenticity and plenary inspiration of the Bible. It is indeed the Word of God.

Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ.

Oh God! If you save me I will work for you.