Quotes About God

Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.

God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.

Man proposes, God disposes.

The motivating factor behind God's redemptive plan for every man and woman is His love for us. He not only loves us, He so loves us!

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?

O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

To sanctify God is to reverence Him in our hearts, and to represent Him in the glory of His holiness before men.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

True revival can only be ignited by God, but God will always move through men.

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.

There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.