Spirituality & Faith: God Quotes

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"Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves"

Robert Southey, Poet

"It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity"

John Templeton, Businessman

"But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"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, Theologian

"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"

William Barclay, Theologian

"The question is not, is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit"

John Templeton, Businessman

"The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea"

John Templeton, Businessman

"The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence"

Christopher Columbus, Adventurer

"Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere"

Brigham Young, Leader

"No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"When men make gods, there is no God!"

Eugene O'Neill, Dramatist

"To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind, and above these, she saw the splendors of the spirit"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"Hidden nature is secret God"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"The smile of God is victory"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"God's colors all are fast"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"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"

Vance Havner, Writer

"In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"God gives all to those, who get up early"

Anna Kournikova, Athlete

"The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"All love is lost but upon God alone"

William Dunbar, Poet

"God like us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like me, only more so"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"I will thank God for the day and the moment I have"

Jim Valvano, Coach

"I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid"

Joan of Arc, Celebrity

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