Quotes About God

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

Only a humble person can come to know God because the humble person can recognize that there is something more powerful, more complete and more perfect than they are.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

And God 'sits in the heavens and laughs' at the proud who pretend to be more than they are.

In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me. I know this is God.

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.

So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing come on you will not be able to keep your footing.

I am high in the sky, and still I do not see the face of god.

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

The greatest thing that will please God is that you maintain an attitude of unshakable joy.

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before.

Do good and throw it in the sea; if God doesn't see it, the fishes will.

If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.

We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.

I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.