God Quotes

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It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

Young man—Young man—Your arm's too short to box with God.

James Weldon Johnson

Man can certainly keep on lying (and he does so); but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel (he does so); but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God. He can certainly flee from God (he does so) ; but he cannot escape Him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God (he does and is so) ; but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in His hate. He can certainly give himself to isolation (he does so — he thinks, wills and behaves godlessly, and is godless) ; but even in his isolation he must demonstrate that which he wishes to controvert — the impossibility of playing the "individual" over against God. He may let go of God, but God does not let go of him.

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

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

From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever,
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God disappears in the anxiety of doubt.

God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Oswald Chambers

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

Morihei Ueshiba

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

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.

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.

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

Christopher Love

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.

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

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.

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

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

Wallace Stevens

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