God Quotes

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If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.

Constantin Brâncuși

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

R. G. Collingwood

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

Lydia Maria Child

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market;
Knowledge needful for all, yet cannot be had for the asking.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth? We have our answer in the fertile soil which spreads over the temperate regions of the globe. The glacier was God's great plough.

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God
and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things, — God.
The dead have all the glory of the world.

Philip James Bailey

God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Fear not, the child will not die.

Grigori Rasputin

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers

And almost every one when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.

Arthur Hugh Clough

But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.

Archibald Alexander

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Imamu Amiri Baraka

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

Christopher Love

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.

Bill Manders: I, too, am pro life but I'm also pro choice, do you understand what I say when I mean that.
Sharron Angle: I'm pro responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.
Bill Manders: Is there any reason at all for an abortion?
Sharron Angle: Not in my book.
Bill Manders: So, in other words, rape and incest would not be something?
Sharron Angle: You know, I'm a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.