Quotes About God

Para un hombre libre no hay ocupación más digna y encantadora que contemplar las hermosas obras de la naturaleza y honrar la sabiduría y bondad infinitas de Dios.

Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.

The rich and the poor have met, God is their light.

The fact is, that, of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn…The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

My problem with that is I don't believe God cares what we do. Everything is equally relevant and irrelevant to God. A religion is nothing more than a political party organized around some guy's moral views, Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, like conventional political parties are organized around some guy's economic views.

Why would a just God allow this to happen? Was it all part of an evolutionary clockwork that God allowed to work through itself, unguided, an enormous experiment of some kind, for good reasons that humans couldn't perceive?

Birkmann waved that away. I'm not religious. Going to church - it's a magic show, in my opinion. Don't tell the Chamber of Commerce I said that. I'm not talking about religion. I'm talking about God, Virgil said. I'm a Lutheran minister's kid, and, believe me, there's a difference between a religion and God. I sorta cut out the middleman.

Fireflies weren't supposed to last this deep into the summer, Virgil knew. Maybe he was getting a signal from God, from one of God's bugs. But what would a yellow light mean? Caution? A little late, huh? —

I propose a toast. Here's to being right all the time. May God and history forgive us." They all clinked glasses to that.

God is a hack," he said. "He's a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can't plot His way out of a box. How do you have faith when you know that?

I mean that you and I know that in this universe, God is a hack, he said. He's a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can't plot His way out of a box. How do you have faith when you know that?

Anyone can be a prophet. You just have to say that what you're talking about is a reflection of God. Or of the gods. Or of some divine spirit. However you want to put it. Whether those things come true isn't one way or another about it.

I want you to know there was some discussion about whether to make the pizza. Because it's a Hawaiian pizza? Yeah. We have a new employee who makes the pizzas. He considers pineapple on a pizza against the laws of God and Nature. She held out the pizza.

Unless this was the afterlife. But I doubted it was. I'm not much of a religious person, but most afterlives that I'd heard of were something more than a blank nothingness. If God or gods existed, and this was all they put together for eternal life, I wasn't very impressed with their user experience. So: probably alive.

If God or gods existed, and this was all they put together for eternal life, I wasn't very impressed with their user experience.

When one is in the presence of our particular defiled god, as I often am, it is meet and appropriate to remind the creature that it is, in fact, defiled, and a slave, and bound to obey my commands.

John Scalzi "I want you to know there was some discussion about whether to make the pizza. Because it's a Hawaiian pizza? Yeah. We have a new employee who makes the pizzas. He considers pineapple on a pizza against the laws of God and Nature. She held out the pizza.

God is love Fear not Be still Know the truth Love your neighbor as you love yourself Love one another as I have loved you

On the surface, said the deep voice of Andrew Ryan booming from hidden speakers, The farmer tills the soil, trading the strength off his arm for a land of his own. But the parasites say, 'No! What is yours is ours! We are the state; we are God; we demand our share!

Never deny yourself love, my child. For to deny love is to deny God's greatest gift. And who are we to deny God?

What is required to get a group of people to pray? They must see how big God is and how little they are. This will produce an awareness of their need. They will be deeply troubled. Yet they must also see that God is truly willing to hear the prayers of people like them. If either is missing, they will not approach the throne of grace. If both are believed, they will pray no matter how inconvenient the time. You will not be able to stop them.

Clever techniques borrowed from slick salesmen have no place in evangelism because they are not crafted with the character of God in mind.

This study is written with the conviction that our fundamental need in Western Christianity is to repent of our low and unworthy views of God, to return to the biblical descriptions of the true God, and to risk it all in order to live upon Who He is.

He had said, I am a man, and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it.