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"Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding."
"I really am pretty happy with what God gave me."
"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."
"God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't."
"Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll."
"I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor."
"To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God."
"Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television."
"No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."
"On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing."
"In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety."
"If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people."
"Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God."
"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"
"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening."
"God is definitely out of the closet."
"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him."
"Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government."
"You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God."
"O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections."
"I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day."
"I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me."
"In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director."
"God bears with the wicked, but not forever."
"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him."
"From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people."
"I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God."
"Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God."
"Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does."
"Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need."
"He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God."
"Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls."
"If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles."
"Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise."
"God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing."
"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men."
"I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in."
"If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word."
"More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him."
"That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."
"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."
"All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."
"Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful."
"If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead."
"It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously."
"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."
"A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol."
"I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world."
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man."
"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."
"You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball."
"Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him."
"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."
"I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me."
"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain."
"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."
"I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us but, with the help of God, we will prevail."
"Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand."
"God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it."
"In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul."
"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails."
"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."
"He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise."
"Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving."
"But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful."
"Trust in God - she will provide."
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
"When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart."
"In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes.That's me also."
"Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt."
"I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live."
"Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it."
"I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God."
"Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble."
"God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity."
"Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye."
"I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians."
"An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others."
"Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God."
"To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God."
"Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God."
"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."
"Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind."
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity."
"God is not a dead equation!"
"A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything."
"Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?"
"I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods."
"It is no use to grumble and complain It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice."
"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."
"In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights."
"Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness."
"They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes."
"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God."
"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."
"I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover."
"Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms."
"God's dice always have a lucky roll."
"No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief."
"As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith."
"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms."
"My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque."
"There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him."
"Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all."
"Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another."
"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."
"And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order."
"Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly."
"It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport."
"The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence."
"In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."
"Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things."
"If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available."
"God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them."
"God's finger touched him, and he slept."
"We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven."
"May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore."
"All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."
"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter."
"Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living."
"Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us."
"Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people."
"An honest God is the noblest work of man."
"An honest man's the noblest work of God."
"The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free."
"I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God."
"Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul."
"Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me."
"The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God."
"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."
"One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god."
"I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth."
"Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way."
"It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God."
"God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs."
"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God."
"Sex is God's joke on human beings."
"I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty."
"If you don't do your part, don't blame God."
"One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting."
"God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure."
"God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart."
"I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement."
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt."
"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!"
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."
"God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper."
"Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end."
"God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher."
"It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash."
"I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."
"I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her."
"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature."
"God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone."
"God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive."
"God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God."
"Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect."
"One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God."
"God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour."
"I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside."
"God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture."
"I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along."
"A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless."
"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 as now generally conceived of is only the last witch."
"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
"If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him."
"And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods."
"Let every man be true and every god a liar."
"God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor."
"My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people."
"Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name."
"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
"I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book."
"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."
"Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it."
"God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."
"Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God."
"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."
"God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light."
"I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God, ' and the almond tree blossomed."
"After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son."
"I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist."
"If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
"God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh."
"First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life."
"God gives some more than others because some accept more than others."
"No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness."
"I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God."
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
"It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven."
"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."
"Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me."
"The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe."
"In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel."
"If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money."
"Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community."
"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."
"I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered."
"And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government."
"Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God."
"I just thank God for all of the blessings."
"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."
"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me."
"Life is God's novel. Let him write it."
"If you love god, burn a church."
"God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius."
"On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say."
"We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people."
"The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way."
"However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts."
"God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation."
"That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget."
"Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny."
"If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down."
"Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you."
"Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate."
"I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God."
"If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me."
"God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple."
"God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years."
"We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me."
"The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no."
"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."
"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."
"Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time."
"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect."
"They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?"
"Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man."
"When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps."
"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."
"Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life."
"God's first creature, which was light."
"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."
"I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me."
"Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace."
"It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor."
"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."
"The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God."
"God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work."
"When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one."
"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible."
"Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product."
"And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives."
"But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms."
"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm."
"For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different."
"Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God."
"Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born."
"Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself."
"If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith."
"I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God."
"God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always."
"Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment."
"Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins."
"If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you."
"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."
"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
"Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife."
"One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God."
"An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with."
"The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory."
"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves."
"Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it."
"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell."
"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."
"Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer."
"I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God."
"A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy."
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
"I don't pray because I don't want to bore God."
"Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain."
"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."
"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
"God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back."
"You never know God is all you need until God is all you have."
"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
"God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends."
"How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past."
"God cannot alter the past, though historians can."
"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."
"And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected."
"God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room."
"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you."
"Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil."
"God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends."
"Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet."
"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
"A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people."
"As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions."
"God made me and broke the mold."
"Let's face it God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?"
"It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously."
"If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit."
"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."
"God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?"
"But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on."
"I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life."
"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God."
"Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable."
"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
"God help those who do not help themselves."
"To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God."
"The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on."
"I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God."
"The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice."
"The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him."
"The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too."
"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave."
"As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God."
"God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole."
"But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next."
"The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about."
"It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist."
"That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it."
"We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God."
"It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church."
"God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason."
"Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too."
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."
"Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away."
"If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron."
"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
"Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?"
"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"
"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache."
"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God."
"God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel."
"I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor."
"We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient."
"To love someone means to see him as God intended him."
"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."
"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday."
"That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians."
"All God wants of man is a peaceful heart."
"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."
"How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God."
"The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me."
"If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike."
"I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that."
"God's delays are not God's denials."
"If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms."
"White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."
"God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form."
"You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected."
"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
"Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God."
"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create."
"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."
"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."
"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see."
"If there is no God, everything is permitted."
"It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy."
"I will thank God for the day and the moment I have."
"Einstein, stop telling God what to do!"
"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."
"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."
"God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person."
"We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour."
"I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."
"God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones."
"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."
"Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God."
"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."
"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
"God has entrusted me with myself."
"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."
"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me."
"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."
"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men."
"To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes."
"Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what."
"I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life."
"He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him."
"Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners."
"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."
"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."
"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it."
"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God."
"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is."
"God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer."
"I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me."
"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."
"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."
"It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god."
"Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'"
"God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live."
"Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune."
"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die."
"The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman."
"Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience."
"To you I'm an atheist to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."
"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is."
"I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."
"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
"I just want to lobby for God."
"To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God."
"The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God."
"I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return."
"I believe in God and his son, Jesus."
"Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach."
"The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error."
"I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!"
"If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it."
"Conscience is God present in man."
"If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life."
"Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion."
"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary."
"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree, ' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on."
"As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be."
"Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever."
"I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe."
"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."
"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God."
"Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."
"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."
"God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world."
"Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen."
"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."
"We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low."
"God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart."
"If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door."
"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god."
"Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God."
"My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god."
"We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us."
"Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh."
"The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic."
"Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God."
"Theology is a science of mind applied to God."
"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."
"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."
"God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies."
"When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide."
"There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice."
"God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how."
"There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away."
"God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas."
"God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it."
"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"
"We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word."
"One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything."
"Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!"
"God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything."
"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."
"If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me."
"Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will."
"The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore."
"I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?"
"Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants."
"The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong."
"Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations."
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."
"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
"That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not."
"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."
"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others."
"Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything."
"If God dropped acid, would he see people?"
"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."
"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
"The dog is the god of frolic."
"I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do."
"God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness."
"The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance."
"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."
"If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe."
"I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man."
"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed."
"It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes."
"No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it."
"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
"In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead."
"There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder."
"The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian."
"When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see."
"The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right."
"From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest."
"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods."
"I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society."
"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."
"Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God."
"The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride."
"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us."
"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars."
"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."
"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering."
"I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books."
"My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people."
"By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us."
"Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God."
"God's desire is that we excel."
"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."
"I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband."
"Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God."
"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."
"To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd."
"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."
"There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand."
"I have always believed in God."
"The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence."
"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."
"The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God."
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better."
"The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay."
"It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode."
"God created man, but I could do better."
"Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life."
"If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him."
"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."
"I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical."
"Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God."
"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."
"I pray God may preserve your health and life many years."
"One and God make a majority."
"The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people."
"We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us."
"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity."
"Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God."
"I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it."
"Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God."
"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us."
"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things."
"Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'"
"We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things."
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
"I think God's justice is making wrongs right."
"I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be."
"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
"I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it."
"Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God."
"I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be."
"Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you."
"God wants to bless us where we are."
"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent."
"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."
"To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer."
"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."
"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
"What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine."
"God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen."
"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."
"You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us."
"When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together."
"We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States."
"For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel."
"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."
"God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another."
"We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise."
"We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible."
"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."
"I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing."
"For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
"I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do."
"As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me."
"Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'"
"It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity."
"Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us."
"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."
"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."
"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
"If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive."
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
"I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody."
"Gray hair is God's graffiti."
"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it."
"Only God can look at somebody's heart."
"I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man."
"God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life."
"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."
"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."
"God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us."
"What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
"But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?"
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."
"I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell."
"The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god."
"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake."
"You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you."
"As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God."
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present."
"I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance."
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
"There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He."
"God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
"It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt."
"God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight."
"When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing."
"I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday."
"Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen."
"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."
"And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it."
"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"
"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
"There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere."
"God screens us evermore from premature ideas."
"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."
"Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."
"Heaven means to be one with God."
"We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature."
"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."
"The highest revelation is that God is in every man."
"Woman was God's second mistake."
"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."
"The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God."
"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you."
"He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride."
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
"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."
"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."
"Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children."
"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty."
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."
"Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?"
"God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man."
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being."
"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
"There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights."
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God."
"God helps those who help themselves."
"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."
"Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another."
"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"
"The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us."
"God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there."
"O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"
"You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate."
"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."
"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."
"I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
"God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless."
"Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will."
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
"Where love is, there God is also."
"God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another."
"My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him."
"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus."
"Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them."
"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."
"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."
"I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust."
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."
"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god."
"A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness."
"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears."
"And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation."
"The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them."
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
"Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure."
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God."
"If God is just, I tremble for my country."
"Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
"God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man."
"Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
"God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'"
"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board."
"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong."
"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God."
"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."
"There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible."
"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."
"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."
"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder."
"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
"Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
"God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean."
"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God."
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
"I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world."
"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil."
"God does not play dice."
"If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."
"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given."
"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."
"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.'"
"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."
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever."
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
"I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."
"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."
"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."
"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."
"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."
"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."
"God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought."
"They always win who side with God."
"God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world."
"The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God."
"Adoration is caring for God above all else."
"The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man."
"A thick skin is a gift from God."
"Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you."
"I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God."
"Even God lends a hand to honest boldness."
"God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter."
"Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines."
"God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own."
"But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me."
"The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is."
"God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own."
"I've said all along that God is in control."
"Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him."
"God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh."
"People see God every day, they just don't recognize him."
"For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image."
"Laughter is God's blessing."
"Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking."
"When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'"
"Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."
"There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God."
"Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back."
"God is bigger than people think."
"One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God."
"Every morning I wake up and thank God."
"If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God."
"I only answer to two people, myself and God."
"The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day."
"God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done."
"Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God."
"After all, God is God because he remembers."
"God always strives together with those who strive."
"God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard."
"When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you."
"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."
"If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you."
"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."
"Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution."
"At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption."
"Every creature is a word of God."
"God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires."
"Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning."
"We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth."
"God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred."
"God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'"
"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail."
"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."
"I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say."
"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."
"My message is that God is a good God."
"The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless."
"The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure."
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God trust also in me."
"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."
"God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with."
"God gave you a gift of 86, 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'"
"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."
"God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."
"Each one prays to God according to his own light."
"The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free."
"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me, ' or 'Help me.'"
"God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us."
"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."
"Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God."
"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
"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."
"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."
