Quotes About God

Prayer—persistent prayer—can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?

Faith begins where the will of God is known

I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

If God wants there to be unbaptized believers in heaven, that is up to him. All we know and all we can preach is what we read in the Book. And from what we can read in the Book, there is no such thing as salvation, redemption, or justification apart from penitent, faith-prompted immersion.

Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.

Conquest by force is not sanctioned by God. The Americans have no right to be here. We will defeat them because we believe that this land they usurp is ours; God created it for us. The whole history of mankind has shown how faith endures while steel rusts. -Istak

I think that I was born on a day God was fast asleep. And whatever happened after my birth was nothing but dreamless ignorance.

Sin, for instance, is an effort to gain something against the will of God; but the will of God is all that holds us in existence;

I lived in my head most of the time— a lonely and messed up place —and suddenly there was a higher force called Allah I could lean on. A companion, who'd travel with me this road less trodden... My life. Islam means surrendering yourself to God.

On one thing all who knew him were agreed: the secret of his usefulness lay in his intense and passionate life of prayer and his unshakeable confidence in God. 'When

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord,'" I whispered, the words familiar from Scripture. "But not this time, God. You had your chance.

There is no going back. There is no revival of our humans. There is no erasure of our horrors. No healing except of time and she is a vengeful mistress, leaving scars that are forever. But there also is no proof of foreknowledge, only of twenty-twenty hindsight. You guessed. You did not know. Knowing is only for God.

His god is not bad. His god understands kindness, taking care of the old and the infirm. His god understands forgiveness. It is Yunega who does not follow the rules of living laid out by his god. Who does not forgive or offer respect to the land that his god said to place under the dominion and care of all people. Yunega thinks that he owns the land and can do what he pleases, when dominion means nothing of ownership.

They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it?

They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it? (note from me: of course I don't believe this, I just thought it was interesting)

I've as good a right to preserve the healthy body God gave me, as if I were not a woman.

Since love came over and knocked me down, Then kicked me in the side and fled, I have suffered from a prolonged perplexity. God is the object of my wonder and the closest to me. Especially near sleep. My sheets are like the wings of a guardian angel. There is no other fabric so near to my feelings.

Angels die? It's a frightening-miracle because here they are. The Upper God has let them drop like centuries into space. And I recognize them!

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

Of course men can't know you when you're unclean,' said Hilda. 'It says so in the Bible. That's why it's called the curse. It's God's punishment.' 'For what?' 'Giving Adam the apple, I suppose.' 'He didn't have to eat it.' 'Yes he did. If someone offers you food, it's only manners to take it. Why are you always so argumentative?

variation on the words of the famous American president Abraham Lincoln: God must love stupid people because He certainly made a lot of them.

Simply this. If God was so sure that righteous Jewish men and women wouldn't murder, why did He bother with the sixth commandment?