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Quotes About God

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
~ Mary Shelley
I think there is only one. Oh, there are gods everywhere, in the hollow hills, in the wind and the sea, in the very grass we walk on and the air we breathe, and in the bloodstained shadows where men like Belasius wait for them. But I believe there must be one who is God Himself, like the great sea, and all the rest of us, small gods and men and all, like rivers, we all come to Him in the end.
~ Mary Stewart
Then she saw me watching her. For perhaps two seconds our eyes met and held. I knew then why the ancients armed the cruellest god with arrows; I felt the shock of it right through my body.
~ Mary Stewart
Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present. G. MACDONALD.
~ Unknown
When the mind thinks nothing, when the soul covets nothing, and the body acteth nothing that is contrary to the will of God, this is perfect sanctification. ANONYMOUS, in an old Bible, 1599.
~ Unknown
There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us wellnigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry, and distraction which life causes as it rushes on. F. W. FABER.
~ Unknown
The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.—LUKE xviii. 27. Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.—PS. xciv. 17. When obstacles and trials seem Like prison-walls to be, I do the little I can do, And leave the rest to Thee.
~ Unknown
The highest pinnacle of the spiritual life is not happy joy in unbroken sunshine, but absolute and undoubting trust in the love of God. A. W. THOROLD.
~ Unknown
Steps Six and Seven are often brushed off, especially by the nonbeliever, because they seem to assume a direct relationship with a personal God. But they really are essential, and reconceptualizing them in a way that allows us to reach their spiritual core—the development of a clear moral self—is crucially important to those of us working the Steps in sobriety.
~ Marya Hornbacher
It is hard to lose the people we love ,but feeling sorry they died is selfish.Dying is going heaven home to God we know your papa is in heaven with our Lady and Jesus.Let us try to be happy for him.
~ Unknown
So let God know what you're doing just by doing it or feel good about yourself. But don't rely on men and women to inspire you to do good because we will probably often fail you with our own imperfections! We all should be trying to improve ourselves, regardless of how much better off or worse off we are than the person next to us, because we can all get better.
~ Unknown
Through inhabiting the Christian narrative, we come to see ourselves, as the medieval writer Julian of Norwich famously put it, as being enfolded in the love of Christ, which brings us a new security, identity, and value. Our self-worth is grounded in being loved by God.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
So is there a better way of framing our identity? Part of the Christian answer to this question focuses on a relationship with God that affirms, whatever else we are, we are loved by God and individually known to God by name. We find identity, meaning, and value within the context of this relationship.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
God leaves footprints wherever He goes; love alone uncovers them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
He who is wise is steps away from riches. He who is loving is steps away from God.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love in you is God in you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is God inside out.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the highest prayer; as God is love, God cannot ignore Himself.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love pouring out of you is evidence of God pouring into you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I've talked to girls who were so blasé about their orgasm. Like it was another thing to do, like I was making it too mythical, too big. Like it wasn't important. Fuck you. This is huge for me. I am God now.
~ Matt Fraction
If God exists, what is He but a mathematician?
~ Matt Haig
People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if we are going to have religion at all then a religion of mathematics seems ideal, because if God exists then what is He but a mathematician?
~ Matt Haig
Total fame was when you reached the point where looking like a hero, or genius, or god, required minimal effort. But the flipside was that it was precarious. It could be equally easy to fall and look like a devil or a villain, or just an arse.
~ Matt Haig
He – or She – or whichever pronoun God is –
~ Matt Haig