What Is God Quotes

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.

God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace... God will give you what you want. I see people make unbelievably destructive choices.

People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.

Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.

BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.

I remember Tucker Toomey was named so because "T's are funny!" And if Garry Marshall says it's funny, by god, it must be so.

Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.

Some of the '80s movies I did are sort of museum pieces. St. Elmo's Fire is great as a sort of kitschy, "Oh, my god, I can't believe we wore that" type of movie.

Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

The question is not How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, What about Christ's will and the example I set for my fellow Christians?

God reserves the right to use people who disagree with me.

Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.

If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.

Job can be anyone. Yahweh can be everyone’s God!

It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.

O world, as God has made it! All is beauty.

I have lived, And seen God's hand thro a life time, And all was for the best.

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.

Other heights in other lives, God willing.

Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.

All service is the same with God.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!

The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.

God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.

We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them.

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.

The eternal Son of God became the sinless son of Man that the sinful sons of men might become the beloved sons of God.

Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.

When we understand our baptismal covenant and the gift of the Holy Ghost, it will change our lives and will establish our total allegiance to the kingdom of God.