Quotes About God

In a sermon I heard recently, the minister claimed that the portrait of God as a storm god (a literary motif that he did not name) in Psalm 97 is based on allusions to the Exodus and is 'not mere window dressing,' that is, metaphoric. As I observed to this preacher later, he used a metaphor in his denigration of metaphor as "mere window dressing.

No coração do puritanismo estava a crença de que a graça de Deus é a fonte de todo benefício humano e que não se pode adquiri-la por mérito humano.

If there is a God he hasn't been paying attention. He should retire and hand over to a younger man, because he's making a real bollocks of everything.

an Egyptologist will use the word "set" to refer to the ancient god of evil, although he does not come up very often in conversation.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Really.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

The Republican debate got pretty heated. They spent most of their time arguing over who God called first.

I think we have to take many paths before we find the way home. God knows your heart. Not matter what, as long as you keep your faith, no matter how many right or wrong turns you take, you will find the right path. And you will come back home again.

Expose yourself! Show me your tattooed spine and star-encrusted tongue! Admit your feral snarl, your bloody jaws concede your nature and reveal your dreams! each beast contains its god, all gods are dreams all dreams are true — Lenore Kandel, from "Freak Show and Finale," Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel . (North

Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God

There just is no higher motive for doing anything than to do it for God.

God, who is infinitely good, would not place in human hearts this desire for perfect happiness if there were no way in which that desire could be satisfied.

We must learn all that we can about God, so that we may love him, and keep our love alive, and grow in love for him.

I have it on indisputable authority that in Scarsdale, during a school celebration of Christmas, one of the children sang the carol as "God rest ye, Jerry Mandelbaum.

Circumcision is described as "the seal of God"—a seal in the flesh, as it were. (In the early days of Christianity, baptism was called "sealing.") In Genesis 17:10, you may remember, the Lord says: "This is my covenant … every man child among you shall be circumcised." And Abraham, who was a very great man, circumcised himself.

Since God is the King of kings, all men, whether princes or paupers, are His servants. Hence, the rabbis taught that no man should serve another,* for all are servants of God alone. A sign in a café in Jerusalem reads: "Self-service. 'For you are servants unto Me,' saith the Lord.

Mr. Abraham, driven to desperation by the endless delays of the tailor who was making him a pair of trousers, finally cried, "Tailor, in the name of Heaven, it has already taken you six weeks!" "So?" "So, you ask? Six weeks for a pair of pants? Reboyne Shel Oylem! It took God only six days to create the universe!" "Nu," shrugged the tailor, "look at it….

A story in the Talmud relates that after the Israelites had safely crossed the Red Sea,* they sang a song of praise to God, but when the angels sought to join the triumphant paean, God thundered: "You shall not sing while my other children [the Egyptians] are drowning.

Every human being and every society is what it is by virtue of the highest to which it looks up. The city, if it is healthy, looks up, not to the laws which it can unmake as it made them, but to the unwritten laws, the divine law, the gods of the city. The city must transcend itself. ...the most important consideration concerns that which transcends the city or which is higher than the city; it does not concern things which are simply subordinate to the city.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.