What Is God Quotes

When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.

I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

One of the ways we can bear the image of God well is to see things in others they don't see themselves and call that out of them.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.

He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.

Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.

Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.

You know why the road curves as you're driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where we’re going, we’d think it was too far.

The only energy that has any power in your life is the gift of breath from God.

Everything God does is purposeful. And since God is in each of us, each of us has a purpose.

When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.

An excellent angler, and now with God.

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture.

When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.

God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean? I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest.

Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.

We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a different part, and He makes it turn out so beautifully.

Nothing is happy until it fulfills the purpose for which it was created by God.

Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

"God" is just a name to refer to something that is beyond all limitations.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

When we pray for the Spirit, we are not praying for an answer; we are praying for God to enter us, to fill us with his presence, his thoughts, and his words.

I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.

The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.

If we don't play God, who will?

Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their family would like to have in case of an emergency...(and) God will sustain us through our trials.

This is why I am calling you to See as God Sees every moment, for it is the only way to release the world you thought was there, in favor of a world that reflects who you really are.

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.