Quotes About God

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai "Ngàje Ngài," the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.' Damned fine, eh?

The God takes care for drunks

Remember the woods were God's first temples.

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

If there were God, never would He have permitted what I have seen with my eyes. Let them have God.

I spoke to the Old Man a couple of times, but I'm sure He didn't hear a word I said. He had quit listening to man a million years ago. Now all He does is play chess by Himself or sit around playing solitary with old cards.

One of the disconcerting and delightful teaching of the master was: God is closer to sinners than to saints. This is how he explained it: God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin you cut the string. then God ties it up again, making a knot-and therby bringing you a little closer to him. Again and again your sins cut the string-and with each further knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

Rousseau created a new responsibility for evil; neither God nor man but human society.

When we are freed from the rules and regulations that are so often imposed on us in the name of God, we discover that creativity is the natural result of spirituality. And if this is true, then our soul is the primary material for all artistic expression.

The great tragedy that I have witnessed over and over again is that we keep underestimating how much God wants to do in us and through us. Too many of us have believed the lies we have been told: that we're not good enough, we're not smart enough, we're not talented enough, we're just not enough. One of the facets of God that makes him extraordinary is his ability to do the impossible through ordinary, everyday, common people like you and me.

if God refuses to mass-produce but insists on an intimate process that in the end forms each of us into the image of Christ, why would we choose a lesser path for our own lives? The work of the artist begins with the care of his or her own soul.

This is perhaps why so many of us who know love fear love. We know that love is not the absence of pain. If anything, love is the promise of pain. No one has loved more deeply than God. Has anyone ever been more betrayed? God would not know suffering if He did not know love. But because He is Love, He chose to suffer on our behalf. Without love there is no glory in suffering.

What if the creative act is not an act against God but a reflection of His image within us?

The more you love God, the more deeply you care about life. The more deeply you care about people, the more deeply you are committed to making a difference in people's lives.

Worship is not something we are called to so that God can reinforce his status. It is his way of calling us near.

God is not a drug, and He certainly does not create experiences and emotions that make us feel better but not become better.

God's will for us is less about our comfort than it is about our contribution. God

the unexpected truth that the safest place for a sinful person to go is to God.

Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don't ever put it past God to cause a groundswell movement against churches and Christian institutions that bear His name. If He was willing to turn Judaism upside down, don't think for a moment our institutions are safe from a divine revolt.

God is not passive, for love is never passive, but always passionate; and passion always leads to action.

When we sit under the pomegranate tree protecting the life we have, we risk relinquishing what God really wants for us—to seize our divine destiny.