Quotes About God

I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.

She fasted on the mesa rim, waiting for a vision, and fasted some more, and after a time God appeared incarnate on a platter as a roasted squab with white paper booties on His little drumsticks.

I always write with my .357 Magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

If God meant this here bulldozer to live He wouldn't of filled its tank with diesel fuel.

O all brave cowboys dead and revived God only knows how you ever survived or stayed out of Hell with souls unshrived.

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

The knowledge of Christ's love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct, and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by spiritual knowledge being put into action.

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Young man, Destiny is less inexorable than it appears. The resources of the great Ruler of the Universe are not so scanty and so stern as to deny to men the divine privilege of Free Will; all of us can carve out our own way, and God can make our very contradictions harmonize with His solemn ends.

Seventeenth-century thinkers rejected the Greek's distinction between truths that have to be - two and two make four - and truths that happen to be - gold is soft and easy to scratch. Since every facet of the universe reflected a choice made by God, chance had no role in the universe. The world was rational and orderly. "It just so happens" was impossible.

How many are your deeds,Though hidden from sight,O Sole God beside whom there is none!You made the earth as you wished, you alone.

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

Traveler: "God has been mighty good to your fields, Mr. Farmer." Farmer: "You should have seen how he treated them when I wasn't around."

O God, who art the author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom; Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies.

Them that's got shall get,Them that's not shall lose,So the Bible said, and it still is news.Mama may have,Papa may have,But God bless the child that's got his own!

God is innocent. Noah built in a flood plain.

Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis [Glory to God in the highest. And on earth peace to men of good will].

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

God will not take you to task for vain words in your oaths, but He will take you to task for what your hearts have earned.

And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.