Quotes About God

Apart from God, life is empty and unsatisfying. D

Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. (1:9)

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD. (6:4) Thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. (6:5) The LORD thy God is a jealous God among you. (6:15)

God's rules and expectations aren't meant to limit and frustrate us but instead to benefit us:

God delivers His people, the Israelites, from slavery in Egypt.

A holy God explains how to worship Him.

But if it were only a matter of attracting success and good fortune to his city and his empire, then being pronounced a god would have meant little more than being appointed a kind of national or city mascot – a role mostly played for us by pet animals these days.

With respect to the question of life after death, I think it is wise for Christians to admit to some tentativeness about it (Eccles. 3: 18–22). The surest thing we can and should say is that we entrust ourselves to God in death as in life (Rom. 14: 7–9).

Slight was the thing I bought, Small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best — God! but the interest!

Is it really that easy? Is trusting in Jesus all that is required to enter into a relationship with God?" Indeed, it is.

Pyotr said that all children were God's children, even those whose minds had been overwritten by alien memes. "What about the Jackaroo and the !Cha?" Tony said. "Those also." "And the Elder Cultures?" "Of course. The universe and everything in it is Her Kingdom.

Perhaps we were atheists by default, but the matter of God did not come into the equation of our love.

That the flesh and the spirit are one in love is none of the business of the celibate men of God, especially those who believe they rule the province of love.

There is no God, I'm sure of that. But the more they've sought me out, the more I am convinced that there are holy men and women. So I send blessings, such as they are, to all my priests who constitute the Resistance. Down with the fur and the edicts. And if they like, they're welcome to include me in their prayers. Can't hurt. None of us will free the world of intolerance alone. We need people of God, especially if He isn't here.

Fox insists that, as long as we harbor a resentment toward any other person, we should not say the Lord's Prayer. We should not ask God to, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us," because, by doing so, we ask God to feel toward us and to treat us the way we feel toward and treat those we resent.

From this moment on, it is entirely His. You are completely free of it. It is gone, done, finished, over. It is as if it never happened. Through the Love of God, you and the other person are both now and forever free.

for the next major development in A.A.—the development of much more real maturity and balance (which is to say, humility) in our relations with ourselves, with our fellows, and with God.2

I'm not saying God predetermines everything. I'm saying He or She has known all along that things would turn out as they have. God is not surprised. God is all-knowing, not all-controlling. Man does have free will.

If man is the product of an evolutionary process, then man is not morally accountable to God; if, however, God directly created man, then man is accountable to God and was also created that he might walk in holiness for fellowship with God.

To put radically asunder what nature and nature's God joined together in parenthood when he made love procreative, and to disregard the foundation of the covenant of marriage and the covenant of parenthood in the reality that makes for a loving procreation, and to attempt to soar so high above an eminently human parenthood, is inevitably to fall far below - into a vast technological alienation of man.

I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography.

I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.

God answers every prayer, Rabbi Schumann once told him, years ago. Mostly His answer is 'no'.

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.