Quotes About God

What we do with our power is ultimately a sure guide to what we will do with the God who claims the power to raise the dead. Either we will grip ever more tightly to our own power in fear of its disappearance, or we will become bolder and bolder in our use of our power to prepare for its ultimate end: the restoration of the world's shalom by the world's power-yielding, powerful Creator.

Work is the fruitful transformation of the world through human effort and skill, in ways that serve our shared human needs and give glory to God.

Lincoln's terrifying words did not apply to the Civil War itself, by the grace of God: If God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

When we try to establish justice apart from worship of the true God, at best we will, as Jayakumar reminded me, simply replace one set of god players with another. What will never be addressed by these thin, secular conceptions of justice is the heart of the biblical understanding of justice: the restoration of the human capacity to bear the image in all its fullness.

Before one finds peace with God, he must have lived, loved and lost something of value to him.

A proud man will be set against all that is holy, for he is the God of his own world.

Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu, melekh ha'olam, asher kidishanu b'mitz'votav v'tzivanu, l'had'lik neir shel Shabbat." Blessed are you, Lord, our God, sovereign of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us to light the lights of Shabbat.

Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu, melekh ha-olam hamotzi lechem min ha'aretz." Blessed are you, Lord, our God, King of the Universe, who brings forth bread from the earth.

Honor your father and mother, Son. You chose to honor us, and you did the right thing. Your father and I believe God wanted to protect you for a greater purpose.

There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike. I don't feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don't really know if it's better to just not believe in anything, either.

I wondered if I was an error of God's planning that would be fixed at the end of my life.

If God is the author of natural law, should not God be best apprehended in those laws?

God's mission for the family is expanding God's family.

Take it easy, Kelea, said Thrash, grinning at me. Kelea? I repeated. A legendary Hawaiian princess who made friends with the water god. She was a radical surfer, he said. Oh, I replied, blushing. Well, thanks. I guess I better practice if I want to live up to that name.

Haven't my past sermons taught you anything? Yes, Emilie threw at him, that you pray for those who are close to God, and those who aren't, who need Him, you toss away like garbage.

The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology, and art even to be entertained—as the beliefs, rituals, and iconography of each of our religions attest to centuries of cross-pollination among them.

history of Christianity is principally a story of mankind's misery and ignorance rather than of its requited love of God.

our endowment from God.

God is both infinitely powerful and infinitely just. Why not, then, delight in the death throes of a sinful world?

Anyone who believes that God is watching us from beyond the stars will feel that punishing peaceful men and women for their private pleasure is perfectly reasonable.

We are the source of the love that our priests and pastors attribute to God ( how else can we feel it?). Your own consciousness is the cause and substance of any experience you might want to deem spiritual or mystical. Realizing this, what possible need is there to pretend to be certain about ancient miracles?

It is worth remembering that if God created the world and all things in it, he created smallpox, plague, and filariasis.

Christianity, in particular, presents impressive obstacles to thinking intelligently about the nature of the human mind, asserting, as it does, the real existence of individual souls who are subject to the eternal judgment of God.

a significant percentage of the world's Muslims believe that the men who brought down the World Trade Center are now seated at the right hand of God