God Quotes

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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

Benjamin Harrison

As man now is, God once was:
As God now is, man may be.

Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.

Corrie ten Boom

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Joseph Campbell

To will what God doth will, that is the only science
That gives us any rest.

François de Malherbe

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

William Gurnall

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Science has made us gods before we are even worthy of being men.

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

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

William Lyon Phelps

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.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

Christopher Love

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies: which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. If your ox kicks a hole in your neighbour's Maserati, however, indemnity is instantaneous.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

Coventry Patmore

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.

Konrad Adenauer

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

Tullian Tchividjian

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

God has two dwellings — one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Frederick William Robertson