Quotes About God

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

O]f all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the best—I'm sure it is the most religious—for I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

God, whose earth is touch'd with beauty / Christ, who praised the lilies gay / Sweet the service, fair the duty / That we offer here today.

The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And order'd their estate.

If God inspires your writing, others will know because it will inspire them when they read it.

Is that part of being a god, manifesting yourselves exclusively in forms of fiction, and making yourselves scarce when it matters?

Who shall compass or fathom God's thought profound? We can but praise, for we may not understand; But there's no more beautiful riddle the whole world round Than is hid in this heap of dust I hold in my hand.

He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

I know someone who believes that Hugo Boss scents constitute proof that God does not exist.

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.

All that we can say is that the belief in God is universal—with those who believe in him. And even here universality of belief is only secured by their refraining from discussing precisely what it is they mean by "God," and what it is they believe in. There is agreement in obscurity, each one dreading to see clearly the features of his assumed friend for fear he should recognise the face of an enemy.

The relation demanded by religion between man and God must be of a personal character. No man can love a pure abstraction; he might as reasonably fall in love with a triangle or profess devotion to the equator. The God of religion must be a person, and it is precisely that, as a controlling force of the universe, in which modern thought finds it more and more difficult to believe, and which modern science decisively rejects.

The whole of the argument of the advocate of the wider teleology is that God wanted the higher type. But if that is so why did he not produce it at once? What useful purpose could be served by producing at the end of a lengthy and murderous process what might just as well have been secured at the beginning?

Let peace, concord and unanimity reign among all Christian people...for without peace we cannot please God.

Lord," Dorothy said aloud, "I know You're with me no matter where I go, whether it's to the familiar or the new…I know it.

Jacob, I know you sometimes wonder about God. But let me tell you something, God never has to wonder about you. He knows, son. He KNOWS!

She'd once read that nature was a glove on the hand of God, and she knew she'd read Truth.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Either God is in the whole of Nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.

who feared God, but not death … who thought none below him but the base and unjust, none above him but the wise and virtuous'.

It is the design of Scripture that God should be at the center of our thoughts and dreams.

If God's so good, why didn't he give you a jump shot?

God is the only being who need not even exist in order to reign. Whatever is created by the spirit is more alive than matter.