Best 15127 quotes in «god quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

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.

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

In all thy actions think God sees thee; and in all His actions labor to see Him; that will make thee fear Him; this will move thee to love Him; the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, and the knowledge of God is the perfection of love.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.

In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but in the manifestation. Between me and the smallest animal, the difference is only in manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. This is the greatest principle that India has preached.

In every moment you are someone new and therefore can be and do anything you wish to be and do, totally unlimited, unrestrained, made in the image of the Infinite.

In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

In gratitude for God's gift of life to us we should share that gift with others. The art of giving encompasses many areas. It is an outgoing, overflowing way of life.

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But he has never learned very well how to live with himself. The values he has created have been predominantly materialistic; his spiritual values have lagged far behind. He has demonstrated little spiritual genius and has made little progress toward the realization of human brotherhood. In the contemporary atomic age, this could prove man's fatal weakness.

In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.

In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.