God - Quotes & Sayings

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Paul Valery

You and I are the players, God's our head coach, and we're all playing the biggest game of all.

Joe Gibbs

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers

I know God has a plan for me. I don't know what it is.

Benjamin Watson

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Frank Moore Colby

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

George Borrow

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Blaise Pascal

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Saint Augustine

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

Rick Warren

Only God can look at somebody's heart.

Joel Osteen

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Francis Bacon

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

Arthur C. Clarke

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Aldous Huxley

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

William Ellery Channing

Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.

Ernest Holmes

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

Abu Bakr

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.

Alphonsus Liguori

If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

Alphonsus Liguori

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

Jane Wagner

I am just so appreciative of God's love. It's higher than any mountain, wider than any ocean, and wider than the whole universe. His love is just that amazing!

Fred Hammond

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Edmund Burke

God is a verb, not a noun.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

Eric Hoffer

Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.

David A. Bednar

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Laurence Sterne

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I can go to festivals and open spaces, but if I'm in a crammed room with a bunch of people - oh my God.

Brendon Urie

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.

William Blake

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

E. Stanley Jones

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

Sheldon Whitehouse

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

Philip Yancey

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

Evelyn Underhill

I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

Tammy Faye Bakker

I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

Dane Cook

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

Charles Stanley

After all, God is God because he remembers.

Elie Wiesel

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

Gordon Ramsay

If we are going to ask for our daily bread, we've got to take the time to receive it and eat it. God provide, but we've got to slow down long enough to taste and see.

Glennon Doyle Melton

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

Neale Donald Walsch

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Ramakrishna

Everything that has happened to me in my life has defined who I am, and all of the things leading up to being governor, that all came from overcoming challenges in childhood and overcoming challenges as I got older. When you have God, you quickly understand there's nothing you can't overcome.

Nikki Haley

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

Marianne Faithfull

If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'.

Joe Strummer

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Menander

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Quintilian

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Alfred Jarry

As a child of God, our whole reason for existing is to give God praise. What a testimony to give in a difficult situation.

Monica Johnson

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

Maureen O'Hara

If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.

Anne Graham Lotz