Quotes About God

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.

It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

From Adam's wife, that proved a curse Though God had made her for a blessing, All women born are so perverse No man need boast their love possessing.

I love all beauteous things,I seek and adore them;God hath no better praise,And man in his hasty daysIs honored for them.

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

Thou, heaven's consummate cup, what needst thou with earth's wheel? But I need, now as then, Thee, God, who mouldest men.

Fool! All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure: What entered into thee, That was, is, and shall be: Time's wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure.

All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.

If you get simple beauty and nought else, You get about the best thing God invents.

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

Through such souls aloneGod stooping shows sufficient of His lightFor us i' the dark to rise by. And I rise.

The best way to escape His ireIs, not to seem too happy.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are;Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.