Best 15127 quotes in «god quotes» category

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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being what he has made them, may be omnipotent and various other things, but he is not what the English language has always intended by the adjective holy.

A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!

Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.

Above all we want people to remember that there are three values we bring to this country. Family, God and hard work.

According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.

A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

A dynamic person is one who really makes a difference in the world; who does something that changes things or other people. The magnitude of the work done may not be great, but the world is different because that person has lived and worked. The real secret of a dynamic personality is to believe that God works through you, whatever you may be doing; to put his service first, and to be as sincere, practical, and efficient as you know how.

A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.

A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

After 9/11, there were a lot of things being said about how the God of Islam and the God of the Christian faith were one and the same, but that's simply not true ... The God that I worship does not require me to kill other people. The God that I worship tells me I am to love my enemy, to give him food when he's hungry and water when he's thirsty.

After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't.

After all, if it comes to that, there is really neither Ogun nor Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our consciousness.

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Aging is God's idea. It's one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward.

A God-intoxicated man. [Ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.]

A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts.

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!

A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.

Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!

Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you, He plans in your favor.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.

All beings exist in an invisible state and then come to a state of visibility. Change occurs only on the surface, for the self-existent glory remains unchanged; changing form does not affect the self-existent Reality. Atman, Soul or the Self, dwells in all that is perishable, yet it remains imperishable.

All can hear that still small voice within. Try it. Be still and know that the I AM within you is God, the Beloved. Listen... then live by it.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

All gods are better than their reputation.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

All existence is a manifestation of God.

All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.