Quotes About God

came because I commanded." "You commanded. I came. If you want to think you caused my coming, so be it. But God's commands are the only ones I obey willingly.

The devil?" Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. "Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of God. The undoer. The destroyer. Yes. He definitely was." Jason smiled. "But he meant well.

It was an unbroken network of causality leading back to the first human who wasn't a chimp. And farther back, to the coalescing of the planets around the sun. If you wish to call that God, go ahead.

I understand that you believe that it works,' said Thrower patiently. 'But everything in the world is either science or miracles. Miracles came from God in the ancient times, but those times are over. Today if we wish to change the world, it isn't magic but science that will give us our tools.

Yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD," Bernard said. "Really?" said Dap. "I didn't know he was signed onto the system.

Together they read the message. COVER YOUR BUTT. BERNARD IS WATCHING. —GOD Bernard went red with anger. "Who did this!" he shouted. "God," said Shen.

Everybody has his talent, everybody has his gift from God, and we go about sharing gifts with each other, that's the way of the world, the best way.

As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson

Maybe we're assigning Achilles supernatural powers," said Petra. "He isn't a god. Not even a hero. Just a sick kid." "No," said Bean. "I'm a sick kid. He's the devil." "Well, so," said Petra, "maybe the devil's a sick kid.

You've lost faith in yourself? Isn't that rich? A god who's become a self-atheist!

A real god doesn't care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods want to teach you how to be just like them.

Most scientists believe in God," said Sel. "Certainly most of us here.

If our happiness is the purpose of God, … why are so few of us happy?' 'Perhaps he want us to have the happiness that we can only find for ourselves.

We could live forever, if we were willing to be stupid the whole time. Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees — knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life, and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

Faith is not to blindly believe, son. Faith is action. It's doing something. It's creating what we need and believing that God will be merciful enough to grant it in his time.

we are strange indeed among all the plants and animals, who unlike us know their place, and if they think of God at all do not imagine him to be their kin, or themselves to be his heirs.

We pray for a messenger from God—who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message?

But as she looked at his matted fur, his blood-soaked muzzle and chest, she couldn't help but think: If this winter god, this walking rug, this one-eyed whining bear is the magical guardian of Russia, then Russia is going to have a very troubled future.

And it might also be that God had nothing to do with it, that it was just the moment that it would have happened anyway, whether she prayed or not.

If our happiness is the purpose of God," said Alai, "why are so few of us happy?

Life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

Excuse me, but if God wanted to do everything himself, what did he make us for in the first place?

There's no part of the ceremony where the priest, acting in the place of God, warns the guests not to murder the bridegroom because it might jeopardize the succession.

All the universe is just a dream in God's mind, and as long as he's asleep, he believes in it, and things stay real. What you see is God waking up, gradually waking up, and his wakefulness sweeps through the dream, undoes the universe, until finally he sits up, rubs his eyes, and says, My, what a dream, I wish I could remember what it was, and in that moment we'll all be gone.