God - Quotes & Sayings

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

William Barclay

As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

Paramahansa Yogananda

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Ray Bradbury

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

Voltaire

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.

Saint Teresa of Avila

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

Robert Anton Wilson

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

Ramakrishna

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

John Donne

I remember, my very first day at a new school, a bird pooped all down my back. It was like any other day of school except everyone was like, 'Oh my God, you're from the movie 'Big Daddy,'' and I had bird poop all over me.

Cole Sprouse

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Martin Luther

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?'

Jan Karon

If you will come back and make that pledge, God will heal your heart tonight.

Benny Hinn

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

James Prescott Joule

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government.

Jay Alan Sekulow

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

Tom Landry

When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

T. E. Lawrence

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Desmond Tutu

There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.

Charles R. Swindoll

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

Alphonsus Liguori

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Eric Butterworth

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Luther Burbank

God is absolutely holy and wise. His nature, attributes, and power are all holy. He is omnipresent, incorporeal, unborn, immense, omniscient, omnipotent, merciful and just. He is the maker, protector, and destroyer of worlds.

Dayananda Saraswati

When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.

Max Lucado

God is best known in not knowing him.

Saint Augustine

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Voltaire

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Simone Weil

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

John Wooden

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

Sue Monk Kidd

I believe the favor of God on my life is not for me to keep to myself and become proud of, but to be used for others... I believe God has a plan for me in the entertainment world.

Luke Benward

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

Queen Elizabeth II

God bless all who serve or have served our country.

Chuck Norris

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

Desmond Tutu

God puts us in places. It's for you to make the decision whether you go left or right.

Tyga

God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

Saint Basil

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of 'passive action,' the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Edwin Louis Cole

In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.

Edith Stein

God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probation to see if they will put first in their lives the kingdom of God.

Ezra Taft Benson

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I was missing the main weight-bearing bone in both legs. And the left leg, I didn't have a full knee. It was a floating knee. I had six toes. My hands were webbed, and I also have one kidney. I don't have a full bicep on my right side. Thank God my hair didn't get ruined.

Oksana Masters

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.

Laura Linney

The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.

Lauren London

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

Gary North

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Elie Wiesel

God has entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Francis Bacon

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

Whitney Houston

If there is one God, then there is only His way to attain Him, not another. One must follow that way and reject the other. Worship not him who is born only to die, but Him who is eternal and is contained in the whole universe.

Guru Nanak