God Quotes

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter.

I’m from Texas…the bigger the hair, the closer to God!

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.

When you don't know what to do, go back to the places, the people and the promises where you know you last heard God.

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.

Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.

God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

Safety comes in our nearness to God, not in our distance from our enemies.

To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.

Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.

I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life.

Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

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

I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.

The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.

I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.