God Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 11
God’s will is not an itinerary, but an attitude.
Andrew Dhuse
Let God’s promises shine on your problems.
Corrie Ten Boom
It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
Corrie ten Boom
I had positive experiences in many settings and from many people, and God’s voice reached me through them.
Karol Wojtyla
There’s no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
Ben Harper
God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
M Scott Peck
The more detached and the purer the prayer, the more acceptable is it in the presence of God.
Báb
I always say my God will take care of me. If it’s my time I’ll go, and if it’s not I won’t. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He’s going to make sure that I’m here to do them.
Joycelyn Elders
When we can’t piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.
Amethyst Snow-Rivers
It’s only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
Henry David Thoreau
Some people always sigh in thanking God.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope (An Essay on Man, 1734)
God doth not need Either man’s work or his own gifts; who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best; His state Is kingly; thousands at His bidding speed And post o’er land and ocean without rest – They also serve who only stand and wait.
John Milton
Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all.
Catherine Marshall (Christy, 1967)
Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money.
Robin Williams
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
Seneca
I’ve been hiding from God, and I’m appalled to find how easy it is.
Mignon McLaughlin (The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966)
The silent organ loudest chants, The master’s requiem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God’s creative pulse itself.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
Billy Graham
We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which we seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul’s beauty.
Teresa of Avila
God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.
Samuel Butler
If you can find the God inside of yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.
Stephen Levine
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God’s mind?
Freeman Dyson (The Meaning of Life, compiled by Hugh S. Moorhead)
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
Abraham Heschel
I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.
Meister Eckhart
‘T is heaven alone that is given away,
‘T is only God may be had for the asking;…
James Russell Lowell (The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848)
Yet her conception of God was certainly not orthodox. She felt towards Him as she might have felt towards a glorified sanitary engineer; and in some of her speculations she seems hardly to distinguish between the Deity and the Drains.
Lytton Strachey
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
Homer
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