God Quotes

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart - and our neighbors as ourselves.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

God has entrusted me with myself.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.

About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go.

One and God make a majority.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Laughter is God's blessing.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

God is a verb, not a noun.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

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

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

The dog is the god of frolic.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

God is in the details.

Heaven means to be one with God.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.