Quotes About God

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.

Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.

The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn't call for inactivity, it calls for activity.

I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.

God primes the pump of obligation.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

The indwelling presence and power of the Spirit are to be sought and received by faith in God's word of promise.

Land [is] the only thing God ain't making no more of.

In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me.

With God in the Joy of Beauty and Youth

Our children were created with a deep hunger to encounter the supernatural living God.

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.