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God does not play dice.
— Albert Einstein
God is best known in not knowing him.
— Saint Augustine
God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.
— Miley Cyrus
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
— Isaac Newton
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.
— Monica Johnson
I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?
— Melanie Griffith
The divine light which you carry within your soul is inherited from God because you are His daughter. Part of the light which makes you so magnificent is the blessing of womanhood.
— Margaret D. Nadauld
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it... stay amazed!
— Joyce Meyer
If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.
— Greg Graffin
I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!
— Billy Ray Cyrus
After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
— Charles Spurgeon
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
— H. L. Mencken
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
— Woody Allen
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
— Bernard Meltzer
The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.
— Pope Benedict XVI
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
— Alfred Adler
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
— Elie Wiesel
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
— Maya Angelou
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
— Plato
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
— Saint Augustine
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
— William Blake
When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.
— Charles Stanley
I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it's gonna happen exactly when it's supposed to.
— Sevyn Streeter
It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!
— Christopher McCandless
Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.
— William Wilberforce
If there is no God, everything is permitted.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
— Charles Stanley
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
— Francis of Assisi
Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
— Elvis Presley
Thank God for the journey.
— James Brown
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
— James Allen
A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.
— Monica Johnson
The fact that what we believe about marriage - that it should be between a man and a woman - and that we're pro-life, somehow that becomes radical? Why is that? It's because our culture has changed. But the truth is, culture may change, people change, but the Word of God never changes, and that's what we rest our belief system on.
— Robert Jeffress
If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.
— Arthur Ashe
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
— Mel Brooks
Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.
— Joseph Prince
If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.
— Mattie Stepanek
As a Christian, I know my life is in God's hands. He has a plan for me. Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
— Tom Landry
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
— Elie Wiesel
Thank God I'm an atheist.
— Luis Bunuel
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
— Simone Weil
My name is Linus, and I am your God.
— Linus Torvalds
It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.
— Roy Moore
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
— Alan Watts
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
— Swami Vivekananda
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
— Charlie Chaplin
Destiny is not designed by mere mortals like us. It is crafted by God.
— Rodrigo Duterte
God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.
— Trevor Huddleston
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
— Jonathan Edwards
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
— Jose Bergamin
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.
— Joseph Prince
The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.
— John Shelby Spong
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
— Woodrow Wilson
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.
— Saint Bernard
Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn't mean I am immortal. It doesn't mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.
— Ayrton Senna
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
— Peter Marshall
Laughter is God's blessing.
— Joseph Prince
There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.
— Standing Bear
I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and all his words and works are directed to communion.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
— Thomas Jefferson
The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
— Radhanath Swami
God is a verb, not a noun.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
— Edwin Louis Cole
God always strives together with those who strive.
— Aeschylus
And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
— Spike Milligan
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
— Agatha Christie
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
— Alan Watts
God, life changes faster than you think.
— Amy Tan
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
— George Bernard Shaw
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
— Edith Stein
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
— Roberto Clemente
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
— Baruch Spinoza
Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.
— Marco Rubio
The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.
— Tony Campolo
Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
— Bobby Darin
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
— Aldous Huxley
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
— Alfred Jarry
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
— Arthur C. Clarke
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
— Francis Bacon
One and God make a majority.
— Frederick Douglass
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
— Heywood Broun
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
— Jean Paul
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
— Simone Weil
God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
— Ted Williams
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
— John Calvin
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
— John Calvin
Trust in God - she will provide.
— Emmeline Pankhurst
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'
— Rick Warren
The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.
— Thomas S. Monson
We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
— David Brainerd
I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
— Loretta Young
Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.
— Francis of Assisi
To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?
— Jose Rizal
God put the human race in charge of managing the resources of the entire planet for the benefit of all life. Therefore, we, of all people on this planet, should be concerned about environmental issues and doing what we can to enhance the beauty and productivity of the natural realm.
— Hugh Ross
We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.
— Sarah Palin
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
— Douglas MacArthur
You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.
— Rick Warren
God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
— Isaac Newton
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
— Voltaire
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
— Thomas Jefferson
No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.
— Roger Williams
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
— Thomas Clarkson
But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.
— Roy Moore
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.
— Lou Holtz
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god.
— Tim Wise
Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
— Mahatma Gandhi
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
— Anne Rice
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
— Robert Kennedy
God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.
— Jimmy Swaggart
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
— William Blackstone
The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.
— Joel Osteen
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.
— Billy Graham
Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.
— Dorothea Dix
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
— Charles Caleb Colton
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.
— John Lennon
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
— William Barclay
The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.
— Rowan Williams
Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.
— Roy Moore
This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
— Gottfried Leibniz
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
— David Brainerd
Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.
— James Prescott Joule
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
— John Donne
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
— Lou Holtz
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.
— Neal A. Maxwell
If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.
— Rick Warren
Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses.
— Tim Daly
The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.
— Joyce Meyer
The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.
— Henri Nouwen
Each of you is a unique child of God. God knows you individually. He sends messages of encouragement, correction, and direction fitted to you and to your needs.
— Henry B. Eyring
My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names.
— Jane Goodall
There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
— C. S. Lewis
Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.
— Guru Nanak
There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God's account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.
— Guru Nanak
I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.
— Alexander the Great
Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.
— St. Jerome
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
— Aristotle
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
— Dag Hammarskjold
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
— Paul Cezanne
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
— Daniel Webster
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
— Lee Iacocca
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
— Charlotte Bronte
I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.
— Jim Morris
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
— Frances Farmer
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
— Thomas Aquinas
God is not a dead equation!
— Muhammad Iqbal
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
— Ramakrishna
You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.
— Ruth St. Denis
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
— Joel Osteen
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
— Nellie Bly
When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
— Morgan Freeman
If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.
— Ayrton Senna
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
— Desiderius Erasmus
God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
— Dwight L. Moody
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
— Elbert Hubbard
A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
— Marian Anderson
Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.
— Alvar N. C. de Vaca
Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.
— Lil Wayne
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
— Charles Stanley
Now the only way you can serve God on earth is by serving others.
— Rick Warren
God has never made a mistake. Ever.
— Ray Lewis
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
— Jonathan Sacks
Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.
— Mary Manin Morrissey
It's not about being thin, it's about being healthy. And when you are a child you like to eat all these unhealthy things like chocolate and sweets. Oh my God. I love strawberries dipped in chocolate and Lion bars and Toffee Crisps - and as you grow up, you have to learn that those things are only good in moderation or you will become very fat.
— Dionne Bromfield
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
— William Barclay
Do not compare yourself. Find out what God has placed in your ability.
— Emmitt Smith
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.
— Ted Cruz
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
— John Piper
The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.
— Isaac Newton
I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain life. I believe it is his will that we should hold absolute mastery over time, so as to devote it mainly to intellectual and moral improvement, domestic enjoyment, and social intercourse.
— William Lloyd Garrison
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
— Blaise Pascal
God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us.
— Joseph Prince
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
— Meister Eckhart
With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.
— Jeremy Lin
It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Every creature is a word of God.
— Meister Eckhart
The grace of God is dangerous. It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God's grace is ridiculously inclusive. Apparently God doesn't care who He loves. He is not very careful about the people He calls His friends or the people He calls His Church.
— Mike Yaconelli
Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.
— Millard Fillmore
I'm always happy for people when I see God blessing them the way he's blessed me.
— Ruben Studdard
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
— William Penn
The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God. This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life.
— Henry B. Eyring
The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
— Pope Paul VI
But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.
— Jupiter Hammon
I'm black because I was born this way. I'm proud of it. Thank God I am who I am.
— Darius Rucker
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
— Woody Allen
The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.
— Billy Graham
Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.
— Charles Spurgeon
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
— Ravi Zacharias
I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.
— DJ Khaled
Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.
— Edwin Louis Cole
Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.
— Victoria Osteen
Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
— Saint Ignatius
I like to go dancing, have a few beers. I like being alone, too. I have days where it's 'God, get me a shot of tequila.'
— Justine Bateman
It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
— Stephen King
A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God - more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.
— Russell M. Nelson
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
— Whitney Houston
If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, you'll get a Mercedes, you're lost.
— Paul Washer
My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'
— Robin Roberts
I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
— Wangari Maathai
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
— Sadhu Vaswani
As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.
— Ellen G. White
It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.
— Joel Osteen
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.
— Ellen G. White
Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.
— Ellen G. White
When your identity is found in Christ, your identity never changes. You are always a child of God.
— Tim Tebow
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
— Meister Eckhart
As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity.
— Bo Sanchez
The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
— Cat Stevens
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
— Mikhail Bakunin
God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.
— Thales
Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.
— Jerry Lee Lewis
If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
— Charles de Montesquieu
There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'
— Elizabeth Gilbert
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
— Thomas Aquinas
TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.
— Charles Inglis
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
— Niels Bohr
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.
— Jimmy Carter
For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.
— Christopher Nolan
We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.
— Saint Ignatius
I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
— Saadi
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
— Aeschylus
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.
— Charles Stanley
I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
— Ranbir Kapoor
I want to know all Gods thoughts all the rest are just details.
— Albert Einstein
If God dropped acid, would he see people?
— Steven Wright
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.
— Arvo Part
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
— Victor Hugo
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
— Malcolm X
What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.
— Marc Anthony
Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.
— Debbie Ford
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
— Charles Darwin
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
— Richard P. Feynman
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
— Jim Elliot
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
— Olivier Messiaen
The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You're a song written by the hands of God.
— Shakira
Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.
— Lady Gregory
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
— Oscar Wilde
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
— Fred Allen
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
— George Berkeley
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
— Albert Camus
Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
— Ronald Reagan
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
— Israel Zangwill
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
— William Law
To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'
— Neale Donald Walsch
For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.
— Tina Turner
The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.
— Francis Scott Key
You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.
— Edwin Louis Cole
Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.
— Lil Wayne
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
— Elie Wiesel
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
— Desmond Tutu
God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.
— Johnny Cash
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
— Voltaire
Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.
— Alphonsus Liguori
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
— Jim Elliot
Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
— Steve Earle
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
— Blaise Pascal
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
— Euripides
They always win who side with God.
— Frederick William Faber
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
— Garth Brooks
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
— Tertullian
Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
— Mahalia Jackson
Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.
— Gloria Trevi
My message is that God is a good God.
— Joel Osteen
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
— Ramakrishna
Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.
— Alphonsus Liguori
The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.
— Pope Shenouda III
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
— Truman Capote
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Where love is, there God is also.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.
— Joan Chen
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
— Ramakrishna
Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.
— John Nelson Darby
The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.
— Roy Moore
God made the integers all else is the work of man.
— Leopold Kronecker
I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.
— Anne Rice
The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.
— Charles L. Allen
God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.
— Mary J. Blige
And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.'
— Richard Dawson
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
— Imelda Marcos
We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.
— David Icke
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
— Pat Robertson
So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my workout and how much torture I put my body through in the offseason.
— Ray Lewis
God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
— Brennan Manning
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
— Edmund Burke
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
— Herodotus
Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
— James Weldon Johnson
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
— Sophocles
Only God can look at somebody's heart.
— Joel Osteen
Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.
— Ernest Holmes
For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
— George Whitefield
The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
— Jupiter Hammon
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
— John Philpot Curran
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
— Voltaire
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
— Blaise Pascal
After all, God is God because he remembers.
— Elie Wiesel
In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
— Lech Walesa
I've said all along that God is in control.
— Tony Dungy
Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
— Charles Stanley
I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
— John Shelby Spong
God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
— Stevie Wonder
Of course God will forgive me that's His job.
— Heinrich Heine
God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.
— Benny Hinn
Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.
— Ravi Zacharias
God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.
— Neale Donald Walsch
There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
— Saint Basil
But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.
— Michael W. Smith
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
— Ramakrishna
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
— Ramakrishna
Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford