Quotes About God

[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.

The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.

When I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, ´there is no god´.

God uses people who fail - Cause there aren't any other kind around.

Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

My potential is what God gives me - that's His gift to me - what I give back to Him is what I do with that potential.

It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God; it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory.

In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.

No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.

If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.

I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.

For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.

Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.

It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.

In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same.

My heart matters to God. My heart has always mattered to him.

Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What is a woman—what is her design?' and, 'Why did God place Woman in our midst?

I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.

Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.