Quotes About God

What is it?" "A prayer." "For a child?" She nodded. "For me?" Another nod. "On a tree?" "Trees spend all day looking up at God.

Talent is a piece of God's shadow. And under that shadow, human stories intersect.

He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.' The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. That, he said, softly, is a terrible self-indictment. Worse than an unanswered prayer? Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet trod, What hills of peace or pain he won? I hope God smiled and took his hand, And said, Poor truant, passionate fool! Life's book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain at school? A poem by Charles Hanson Towne

Man invents nothing God did not create first.

When you come to the end, that's where God begins.

I meant no disrespect. It's just that I had always felt that rabbis, priests, pastors, any cleric, really, lived on a plane between mortal ground and heavenly sky. God up there. Us down here. Them in between.

Napoleon once dismissed religion as 'what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.' Meaning, without the fear of God--or literally the hell we might have to pay--the rest of us would just take what we wanted.

A eulogy is no more than a summation of memories, and we will never forget you, because we cannot forget you, because we will miss you every day. To imagine a world without you in it is to imagine a world with a little less God in it, and yet, because God is not a diminishing resource, I cannot believe that.

Then why do we do so many bad things? He sighed. "Because one thing God gave us—and I'm afraid it's at times a little too much—is free will. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.

I don't need company,' I [Benjamin Kierney] said. 'I'm just thinking about things.' 'Your fate,' the Lord said. 'Something like that.' 'Perhaps I can help.' I actually laughed. 'Why? If I were God, I would have given up on me long ago.' 'But you are not,' he said, 'and I never will.

In the beginning, there was a question. In the end, the question gets answered. God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song—one same, wonderful, human song. I am in love with hope.

Only God can write the end of your story.

But man invents nothing God did not create first.

Eddie admitted that some of his life he'd spent hiding from God, and the rest of the time he thought he went unnoticed.

People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

I think," he says, smiling, "God overdid it.

Once, he had prided himself on keeping time with water. But man invents nothing God did not create first.

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.

Now. My turn. Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can't explain, something that created it all at the end of the search.

no religion was superior because they all brought people closer to God;

There was, in the construction of the universe, us down here, God up there, and you in between. When God seemed too intimidating to face, we could first come to you. It was like befriending the secretary outside the boss's office.

One, as in the singular God. One, as in the Lord's creation, Adam.

A woman has been chosen. The gift of heaven on earth. This will become the biggest story in the world. Coldwater, Michigan. Ask a man of God. One call will confirm everything.