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Quotes About God

I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.
~ Robert Frost
God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.
~ Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
~ Henrik Ibsen
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.
~ Henry Van Dyke
The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
~ Heraclitus
We believe that all men are the spirit children of God, created in his image. This concept is supported by the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation.
~ Hugh B. Brown
One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.
~ Isak Dinesen
Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God's call in your soul.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Angels worship God with purity and love; men, with fear and trembling.
~ James Ellis
Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.
~ James Jackson Jarves
A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.
~ Jim George
Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.
~ John Calvin
It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
~ John Donne
As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
~ John Jewel
Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.
~ John Owen
The natural man "cannot see or discern that divine excellency in the Scripture, without an apprehension whereof no man can believe it aright to be the word of God."
~ John Owen
Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
~ John Piper
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
~ John Tillotson
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.
~ Joseph Hall
Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder