Quotes About God

because God could see everything you did and also thought and most of these things annoyed him.

Men are sex machines, said Aunt Lydia, and not much more. They only want one thing. You must learn to manipulate them, for your own good. Lead them around by the nose; that is a metaphor. It's nature's way. It's God's device. It's the way things are.

He showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand … as round as any ball. I looked at it and thought, What may this be, and I was answered generally thus: It is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last. For I thought it might fall suddenly to nothing, for little cause; and I was answered in my understanding: It lasts and ever shall, for God loves it. And so has everything its being, through the love of God.

Many of my contemporaries are atheists, and for good reasons. God isn't really the problem. Some of His followers are big assholes

He would go to Vera and deliver the horrible news and comfort the poor woman with his prayers and platitudes and tell her how God was with her, no matter what. She knew the words by heart; there had been times when he had used them on her, and she wondered if God had been with T.J. when they were cutting his arms to the bones.

God had been intentional in each gathering. He used these encounters to uncover a deep need and satiate a deep hunger.

The same is true for God, and I long to experience that depth of love in my relationship with Christ.

Es verdad que, a veces, Dios nos hace promesas que nos ayudan a pasar los tiempos difíciles. Pero parece que no revela Su voluntad a los curiosos, sólo a aquellos que ya sabe que obedecerán. Y a los que obedecen no es necesario revelarles nada. Os puedo prometer una cosa: este viaje es una gran aventura. La vida con Dios nunca es aburrida.

Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

If God had seen fit to punish them so, then God could very well do without prayers. Religion had always been a bargaining process with Scarlett. She promised God good behavior in exchange for favors. God had broken the bargain time and again, to her way of thinking, and she felt she owned Him nothing now.

When such thoughts came she did not pray hastily to God, telling Him she did not mean it. God did not frighten her any more.

God's nightgown!" said Scarlett to herself in indignation, using Gerald's favorite oath. "He looks as if—as if he knew what I looked like without my shimmy," and, tossing her head, she went up the steps. In the

The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God.

They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.

A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.

It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.

In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.

A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.

The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.

Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.

As long as we complain, we remain stuck in our problems. But a thankful attitude brings deliverance and makes God smile.