God Quotation

Any fool can count the seeds in an apple.  Only God can count all the apples in one seed. 

Every evening I turn my worries over to God.  He's going to be up all night anyway. 


God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. 


Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God. 

God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them. 

What we are is God's gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God. 


A man with God is always in the majority. 


Certain thoughts are prayers.  There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. 


You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list.  The longer your list, the smaller your God. 


Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. 

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines. 


I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. 


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. 


The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. 

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. 


The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. 


God's last name is not "Dammit." 


Once one has seen God, what is the remedy? 

No matter how much I prove and prod,
I cannot quite believe in God;
But oh, I hope to God that He
Unswervingly believes in me.



People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.  ~Pearl Bailey


How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. 

God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude. 


Let God's promises shine on your problems. 


How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? 

I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me. 


By night, an atheist half believes in God. 


Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that "a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."  At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them. 


You found God?  If nobody claims him in thirty days, he's yours! 


When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily.  It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us. 

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. 


I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.  I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.


In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all.  It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it. 


I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. 


Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. 

Weave in faith and God will find the thread. 


They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. 


If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout. 


God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. 

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. 


Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.


God is a sort of burglar.  As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down. 


Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. 

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. 

God enters by a private door into each individual. 

Your talent is God's gift to you.  What you do with it is your gift back to God.

God is the perfect poet.

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand.  If you understand you have failed. 

God is not the name of God, but an opinion about Him. 

God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine. 


In nature we see where God has been.  In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.


"What do you think of God," the teacher asked.  After a pause, the young pupil replied, "He's not a think, he's a feel." 


I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation. 


God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. 


All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.



Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else. 

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

Remember this.  When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold.  When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness.  This is also the case when people withdraw from God. 


Why attack God?  He may be as miserable as we are. 


Are you wrinkled with burden?  Come to God for a faith lift. 


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." 


We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter.  God is our eternal fallout shelter. 


Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. 


Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.


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


You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God. 


When you knock, ask to see God - none of the servants.   

Your mind works very simply:  you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. 


Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself.

Most people wish to serve God - but only in an advisory capacity. 


I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is. 

The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers.

A lot of people are willing to give God credit, but so few ever give Him cash. 

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God. 

To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. 

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. 

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there. 

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands. 

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.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. 


We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors. 

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body. 


'T is heaven alone that is given away,
'T is only God may be had for the asking;...


We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not. 

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect? 

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it. 

No pillow so soft as God's promise. 

The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him. 

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. 

Some people talk about finding God - as if He could get lost. 

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk. 

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.  The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will - I see God everywhere! 


Is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders? 

I believe in God; I just don't trust anyone who works for him.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. 


There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles. 


All that I have seen teaches me to trust God for all I have not seen. 

"I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all," Teddy said.  "It was on a Sunday, I remember.  My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God.  I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean. 

He who kneels before God can stand before anyone. 

Peace on the outside comes from knowing God on the inside. 

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. 

Hunting God is a great adventure. 

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. 

God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper. 

Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God. 

God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. 

Some people always sigh in thanking God. 

God, that dumping ground of our dreams. 

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

If God asks that you bend, bend and do not complain.  He is making you more flexible, and for this be thankful.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. 

God - the John Doe of philosophy and religion

When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.


Life is a tapestry:  We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver.  Only the Weaver sees the whole design.

Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all. 

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

I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn't seem to matter. 

Don't question God, for He may reply:  "If you're so anxious for answers, come up here." 

I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light. 

Availability is better than ability for God.

Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich.  He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties. 

God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator. 

Man is born broken.  He lives by mending.  The grace of God is glue.

Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God.

If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved? 

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour. 

When we put our cares in His hands, He puts His peace in our hearts. 

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

What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell - this invisible thing that heals all sorrows, reveals all lies and renews all hope?  What is it that has always been and always will be, from whose bosom we all came and to which we will all return?  Most call it Time.  A few realize that it is God. 

Exercise daily.  Walk with the Lord! 
Be God or let God. 


I could not say I believe.  I know!  I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. 


God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. 


Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God; and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. 


I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining.  I believe in love even when I am alone.  I believe in God even when He is silent.


God can never be a definition.  He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary. 

Darkness cannot put out the Light.  It can only make God brighter. 

No God, no peace.  Know God, know peace. 

You ask:  what is the meaning or purpose of life?  I can only answer with another question:  do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? 

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

God moves in a mysterious way

His wonders to perform;

He plants his footsteps in the sea,

And rides upon the storm.

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.

Many people choose to believe that God communicates in special ways and only with special people. This removes the mass of the people from responsibility for hearing My message, much less receiving it (which is another matter), and allows them to take someone else's word for everything. You don't have to listen to Me, for you've already decided that others have heard from Me on every subject, and you have them to listen to.

Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.

What shall I do, if all my love,

My hopes, my toil, are cast away,

And if there be no God above,

To hear and bless me when I pray?

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

The way to God is by our selves.

All powers, all laws, are but the fair

Embodied thoughts of God.

I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.

Earth's crammed with heaven,

And every common bush afire with God;

But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,

The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries,

And daub their natural faces unaware.

The nearer the Church the further from God.

God is dead: but considering the state of the species Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't even look back over his shoulder. And then what will you do?

And almost every one when age,

Disease, or sorrows strike him,

Inclines to think there is a God,

Or something very like Him.

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

An honest God's the noblest work of man.

When men make gods, there is no God!

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

After 9/11, there were a lot of things being said about how the God of Islam and the God of the Christian faith were one and the same, but that's simply not true ... The God that I worship does not require me to kill other people. The God that I worship tells me I am to love my enemy, to give him food when he's hungry and water when he's thirsty.

Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us

O'er the world's tempestuous sea;

Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us,

For we have no help but Thee.

God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

God is a foreman with certain definite views

Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.

The flame of my life burns low

Under the cluttered days,

Like a fire of leaves.

But always a little blue, sweet-smelling smoke

Goes up to God.

God helps them that helps themselves.

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Where sanity is there God is.

God is the perfect poet,

Who in his person acts his own creations.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,

But God to man doth speak in solitude.

God doesn't do anything to us. He doesn't have to. We're too busy doing it to each other.

Our life is like th' unstable wave,

Our bloom of youth decays.

Our joys are brief as lightning flash

In summer's cloudy days,

Our riches fleet as swift as thought;

Faith in the One Supreme

Alone will bear us o'er the gulfs

Of Being's stormy stream.

For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin, and the bones in the flesh, and the heart in the bulk, so are we soul and body clad and enclosed in the goodness of God: yea, and more homelie, for all they vanish and waste away, the goodness of God is ever whole and more near to us without any comparison.

God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

I think everyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.

So long as you believe in a Two-Faced God, you will create ecstasy and terror side by side. You have imagined a God who is the epitome of both, and by telling yourself that you are created in the Image and Likeness of God, you have given yourself the moral authority to demonstrate both. You love and hate in the name of God.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own--a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.

God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

Nothing more shows the low condition Man is fallen into, than the unsuitable notion we must have of God, by the ways we take to please him.

Those who are crafty, think the wisdom of God warrants him to deceive; those who are revengeful, think the goodness of God permits him to be cruel; those who are arbitrary, think the sovereignty of God is the account of his actions. Everyone attributes to God, what he finds in himself: but that cannot be a perfection in God, which is a dishonesty in Man.

Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission". The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done.

If there is a God what the hell is He for?

No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.

What were a God who only gave the world a push from without, or let it spin around His finger? I look for a God who moves the world from within, who fosters nature in Himself, Himself in nature; so that naught of all that lives and moves and has its being in Him ever forgets His force or His spirit.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

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. 


Clearly, God is a Democrat. 


God:  The most popular scapegoat for our sins. 


I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.