Quotes About God

Not like God reads minds or anything. - He better not, or we're all fucked forever.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end. God's Garden

Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.

For God himself the height of feeling free Must have been His success in simile When at sight of you He thought of me.

For this is love and nothing else is love, The which it is reserved for God above To sanctify to what far ends He will, But which it only needs that we fulfil.

Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in.

Arguing whether or not God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name of God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog.

It reminds me of an old Sufi story of a good man who was granted one wish by God. The main said he would like to go about doing good without knowing about it. God granted his wish. And then God decided that it was such a good idea, he would grant that wish to all human beings. And so it has been to this day.

to the end, no matter what it is you are considering. Often enough, God gives a man a glimpse of happiness, and then utterly ruins him. THE HISTORIES, HERODOTUS, FIFTH CENTURY B.C. Indians

In the Lord's Prayer the believer, with the phrase May thy name be made holy, calls for a demonstration of the holiness of God. That is, the worshiper is saying, May God again demonstrate his holiness. This in turn expresses a willingness to participate in Isaiah's dramatic experience.

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Prayer is so simple. It is like quietly opening a door and slipping into the very presence of God. - Unknown

Christ did not die merely to display God's love -- He died because God is love. (I John 4:8)

Prayer is releasing the energies of God. For prayer is asking God to do what we cannot do ourselves. - Selected

it was Harriet Stowe's practice to rise at 4:30 each morning to see the coming of the dawn, hear the singing of the birds, and to enjoy the over-shadowing presence of her God.

When ye've lived as long as I have, ye realize how relative time is. I've endured centuries that passed in the blink of an eye as if I were barely breathing.' He stopped and faced her. 'Or I can experience an entire lifetime in the span of a few nights. All the hope and passion that makes life worth living, 'tis suddenly surrounding me like a gift from God.' (Angus MacKay)

The people were created in the image of God and thus they were within the precinct of His grace, even the ones who didn't know Him...the ones who withdrew themselves from His presence.

From the perspective of the dead, life was a dangerous thing: a world of bullets, with everyone dodging everyone else, and no one to blame but God or the cosmos, contingency or fate, whoever had fired the gun.

I think you're confusing God with a genie.

In Shari'ah, as noted above, the obligation is not just to do ethical deeds and refrain from unethical deeds; the obligation is to testify justly for God against evil, even if it is against oneself and loved ones. This is a critical foundation for our covenant with God and for inheriting the earth and continuing on God's path.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.

At times, he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words. But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the Arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue. He said they comforted him, eased his heart. They'll comfort you to . Mariam jo, he said. You can summon then in your time of your need, and they won't fail you. God's words will never betray you, my girl.