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Quotes About God

DODGE: You're a funny chicken, you know that? SHELLY: Funny? DODGE: Full of hope. Faith. Faith and hope. You're all alike, you hopers. If it's not God then it's a man. If it's not a man then it's a woman. If it's not a woman then it's politics or bee pollen or the future of some kind. Some kind of future.
~ Sam Shepard
The soul cannot be intellectually grasped or scientifically examined, Emerson insisted; it can only be felt, loved, and enjoyed. Through our individual souls, we have direct access to the universal soul—God.
~ Sam Torode
Hosea was the prophet whom God commanded to marry a prostitute.
~ Sam Torode
was only God's rough draft, but Eve was his masterpiece.
~ Sam Torode
Why didn't Noah save the dinosaurs, if God told him to bring two of every creature?
~ Sam Torode
Remember—Adam was only God's rough draft, but Eve was his masterpiece.
~ Sam Torode
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
~ Samuel Butler
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
~ Samuel Johnson
God never accepts a good inclination instead of a good action, where that action may be done; nay, so much the contrary, that, if a good inclination be not seconded by a good action, the want of that action is made so much the more criminal and inexcusable.South'sSermons.3. Agency
~ Samuel Johnson
Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave No spot or stain behind. Milton.
~ Samuel Johnson
God direct you according to them, and comfort you! All my fear was (and that more particularly for some of the last past months) that I should have been the mournful survivor. In a very few moments all my sufferings will be over; and God give you, when you come to this unavoidable period of all human vanity, the same happy prospects that are now opening to me! O Sir, believe me, all worldly joys are now nothing; less than nothing:
~ Samuel Richardson
My dearest Clementina, said I, you have shewn so glorious a magnanimity, that it would be injuring you, to suppose you are not equal to every branch of duty. God forbid that you should be called to sustain an unreasonable trial — In a reasonable one, you must be victorious.
~ Samuel Richardson
M BH: Man's Best Hospital; a BMS-affiliated hospital founded by WASPs; competitor of the House of God.
~ Samuel Shem
And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of All?
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all. The Mariner, whose eye is bright, Whose beard with age is hoar, Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest Turned from the bridegroom's door.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus! — Why look'st thou so?' — With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I will always be marked by the struggle. But it is through it that I have seen God.
~ Samuel Wells
The Eucharist is the technology God uses for constructing a new society.
~ Samuel Wells
no man can be in danger by loving others too much, that loveth God as he ought.
~ Samuel Wells
Stories...told with...heroes at the centre of them...are told to laud the virtues of the heroes---for if the hero failed, all would be lost. By contrast, a saint can fail in a way the hero can't, because the failure of the saint reveals the forgiveness and the new possibilities made in God, and the saint is just a small character in a story that's always fundamentally about God.
~ Samuel Wells
I felt free this time, knowing I had a job and that I wasn't going to be graded. I could simply experiment and create. The thought occurred to me that if I always lived under the certainty of God's provision instead of the certainty of Lexi's worry, I might always feel this free.
~ Sandra Byrd
So you see, Tess, this is really the story about God, the brave, and his love for his bride, you. He gave everything he had for you, including that which he loves the most, Jesus. Not because you do anything great, but because he loves you exactly as you are. That's why he will forgive you, and you can trust him with your whole life and be his friend forever. Isn't this a neat story? I heard it last Sunday night." Tess
~ Sandra Byrd