Quotes About God

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be.

Nor had he wanted to get right with God; he felt that God needed to get right with him.

One meaning of a symbol is not necessarily its meaning for all dreams. Also, do not get fixed on a symbol's single meaning because it may change as you grow in your walk with God. As you study the Word of God, you will draw less on your own life experience and more from a biblical reservoir of examples.

There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?

The problem, kid," Shorty said, "is there is no one on either side of the fence keeping measurements about what you do. God is an idea, and the devil is us.

It has everything to do with your world view- your basic set of beleifs and whether or not those beliefs include God.

Human beings seek to experience reunion with God by encountering God in relationship to one another. We can speak of the persons who so reveal God to us as our soul mates. Every soul knows the qualities of its soul mates, because every soul knows the qualities of God that it feels separated from. God has placed the knowledge of the soul mates in our intuition.

I come to think on that watch some more, and it come to me that God wasn't all loving. He was like a big watchmaker, and we were the innards of his watch, and this here earth we stand on is the watch's slippery surface. Once God got the watch made, set it ticking, he sat back and said, 'Well, good luck to you son of a bitches, cause I'm done.

When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union's side, Lincoln's unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God's side.

Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

What an honor to be chosen to care for God's chosen people." Luc reflected on that for the next few days. He hadn't really thought about it as an honor. It just seemed the right thing to do. The Bible commanded him to love his neighbors. Weren't these his neighbors, even if they didn't believe the same things he believed?

We serve a prayer-hearing and a prayer-answering God, a wonder-working God!" he loved to say. "And answered prayer is one of the ways we experience him.

Before you worry about the world, son, you should be sure your own soul is secure in God.

God always knows what we need, and if we'll just trust him, he'll provide from the most unlikely of sources.

the night, the brighter the stars; The deeper the grief, the closer is God.

My grandmother taught it to me when I was a little girl," Morris said as she blew down the desolate country road at more than eighty miles per hour. "She used to say, 'Jenny, God always knows what we need, and if we'll just trust him, he'll provide from the most unlikely of sources.

The common thread with these people is that they each refused to rely on the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. God will use who you are to minister to many people. Trust in Him and watch Him do great things through you.

Mostly, though, I prefer to believe that God has no grace to give. Because the alternative is that He gives grace capriciously or, even worse, that He plays favorites. Some desolate valleys become places of springs, and others wither until they are sere beyond hope, and if God is the one who chooses which is which then I would rather live in a universe lucky enough to have escaped His notice.

In THE ART OF SPIRITUAL HEALING, the great mystic Joel Goldsmith said, "Healing is finding an inner communion with something greater, far greater, than anything in the world; it is finding ourselves in God, finding ourselves in a spiritual peace, an inner peace, an inner glow, all of which comes to us with the realization of God with us, the presence and power of God felt.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

Only God can look at somebody's heart.

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.