Quotes About God

Both as a young man and more recently, he first figuratively and then literally set out to "play God," initially by making the claim that humans had the power of gods and then during the past decade by creating an organization to save and restore endangered species with modern biotechnology.

Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

How can I live without thee, how forego Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild woods forlorn? Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no, no, I feel The link of nature draw me: flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

I rather have you win, because in God even those who are in second place are first.

I don't want to oppress men or demand to be given rights beyond what's held by them, but neither do I want men to oppress women. As God's creations, we should be held in equal esteem.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument. ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.

The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul's power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.

The reason why we fail to prevail with unconverted men is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?