Quotes About God

It was Dec. 22, 1981. I figured I had messed up enough, and I decided to have a little faith and let God take over. It definitely straightened my act up in a hurry.

God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.

There are two different ways to live life—the "I think I can" life, and the "I know I can't, but I know God can" life.

At its most basic, to love God with all your mind is to know that God's thoughts are thoughts of love toward you and to decide that your thoughts will be thoughts of love toward God.

The conviction that God was a warrior bound by a timeless covenant to the defence of a particular people was one that he had abandoned after his first vision of Christ. It was a new covenant that he had preached. The Son of God, by becoming mortal, had redeemed all humanity. Not as a leader of armies, not as the conqueror of Caesars, but as a victim the Messiah had come. The message was as novel as it was shocking—and was to prove well suited to an age of trauma.

When the Senate met for the first time a week after the funeral, on 17 September, it was to confirm that the dead Princeps was indeed to be worshipped as a god. His wife was appointed his priest. This, in a city where all the priesthoods except for those of Vesta were monopolised by men, was unprecedented. Astonishingly, Livia was even given a lictor.

To live in accordance with nature, therefore, was to live in accordance with God. Male or female, Greek or barbarian, free or slave, all were equally endowed with the ability to distinguish right from wrong. Syneidesis, the Stoics termed this spark of the divine within every mortal: 'conscience'. 'Alone of all creatures alive and treading the earth, it is we who bear a likeness to a god.'48

Add in the fantasy mindset. Don't forget "Insh'allah", (which is like "mañana," but without the sense of urgency) which makes it somewhat impious to train really well since it is all the will of God anyway. Add in a set of social values that despise and loathe doing physical labor.

Would it not make sense that God not only wants to join us in our work but to increasingly conform us into greater Christlikeness while we work?

A preacher will preach, a teacher will teach, a miner will dig in the mines. I ride the rods, trusting in God, Holding my bottle of wine.

WHAT dark and bloody secrets the future hides from us," Alexandre Dumas would one day write in his memoir, meditating on his father's fate. "When they are revealed, men may realize that it is by the good providence of God they were kept in ignorance of them until the appointed time.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.

There ain't no devil there's just god when he's drunk

God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!

El Diablo hizo el mundo mientras Dios estaba durmiendo.

there ain't no devil, it's just God when he's drunk.

There ain't no devil, just God when he's drunk.

There ain't no such thing as the devil that's just god when he's drunk.

No hay cosa más dulce que el amor; nada más fuerte, nada más alto, nada más ancho, nada más alegre, nada más lleno, ni mejor en el cielo ni en la tierra; porque el amor nació de Dios, y no puede aquietarse con todo lo criado, sino con el mismo Dios.

The new philosophy proceeds from the world, the book of God.

The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

College is where I realized that God didn't need seven days to create the earth. He could party for six days, and pull an all-nighter.

Nowadays, I don't believe in the Christian concept of a God who created people for the sole purpose of judging and punishing them. After all, if one of the commandments is "Thou shalt not kill," does that make God a hypocrite when he does things like flooding the world or destroying Sodom and Gomorrah?