Quotes About God

Boatman, I've spoken honestly to you, and I hope it doesn't cast your earlier judgement of us in doubt. For I suppose there's some would hear my words and think our love flawed and broken. But God will know the slow tread of an old couple's love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole.

The stranger thought it might be God himself had forgotten much from our pasts, events far distant, events of the same day. And if a thing is not in God's mind, then what chance of it remaining in those of mortal men?

Where once we fought for land and God, we now fought to avenge fallen comrades, themselves slaughtered in vengeance. Where could it end? Babes growing to men knowing only days of war.

For I suppose there's some would hear my words and think our love flawed and broken. But God will know the slow tread of an old couple's love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole.

I thought you were all-seeing." All-knowing, not all-seeing!" he snapped. "I'm a God, not Santa Claus!

But I didn't put it back on after the Porters. It isn't a crisis of faith. I'm not sure I ever had faith, not the way Mom does. Mine is more like Dad's - I believe there is a God, and I believe in honoring Him, but I'm not sure how much of a role He plays in our lives, and I don't blame Him for that, because it's up to us, isn't it? It's up to us to say we'll be a good person because that's what we believe is right, not because it'll earn us a better place in the next life.

To seek God's hand is to covenant with God for what He can do ... His presents. To seek God's face is to covenant with God for who He is ... His Presence.

God has an inordinate fondness for stars and also for beetles. The small and the very far away.

Que Dios nos libre de los hombres con un destino dictado por la voluntad divina

His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.

He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to be wrong, and meanwhile it made little difference to the way he lived.

He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church. Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his critical faculties, and placed his trust in his superiors. His reward had been treachery.

Excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility. - Cuthbert Whitehead

In the Arab world, every work of art has a tiny flaw, so that it doesn't sacrilegiously compete with the perfection of God.

Ha creído que, al servicio de Dios, el fin justifica los medios.

Philip believed that caring for people was the service of God. That was what salvation was about.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

It looked, she thought, as if the hand of God had come down over England and struck the earth, destroying everything men had made except churches.

Ethel had not gone to chapel—there was too much to do in the house. "What did you pray about?" "I asked the Lord to help us understand why He allowed the explosion down the pit." Billy cast a nervous glance at Da, who was not smiling. Da said severely: "Billy might have done better to ask God to strengthen his faith, so that he can believe without understanding.

Carla no creía en Dios —ninguna entidad sagrada digna de tal nombre habría permitido que llegaran a existir los campos de exterminio nazis—

Perhaps we've done enough." Sylvie was shocked. Her mother had never talked this way. Isabelle noticed her reaction and said defensively: "Even God rested on the seventh day, after he made the world." "Our work isn't finished." "Perhaps it never will be, until the Last Trump.

We hanged him in front of Kingsbridge Cathedral. It is the usual place for executions. After all, if you can't kill a man in front of God's face you probably shouldn't kill him at all.

Resulta extraño que a veces Dios se lleve a los hombres buenos y deje a los malos.

The relation of love is not the same as the relation of worship. One worships a god. Only human beings can be loved. When we worship a woman we cannot love her. Then, when we discover she is not a god, we hate her.