Quotes about god
god attitude promise
Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way. Joel Osteen
god sadness joy
God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness. Joan Baez
god age use
One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth? We have our answer in the fertile soil which spreads over the temperate regions of the globe. The glacier was God's great plough. Louis Agassiz
god men world
I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men. Louis Agassiz
god jobs glory
It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God. Louis Agassiz
god men add
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown. Louis Agassiz
god money
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God. Logan Pearsall Smith
god believe names
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him. Madeleine L'Engle
god atheist believe
Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. Madeleine L'Engle
god science possibility
science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities. Madeleine L'Engle
god mean people
As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist. Madeleine L'Engle
god thinking differences
What is the difference between God and Bono? God doesn't wander down Grafton Street thinking he's Bono. Louis Walsh
god florida bless
God bless the Florida Supreme Court. Lou Dobbs
god religious prayer
These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless. John Fowles
god definitions
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. John Fowles
god self soul
It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away. Jonathan Haidt
god sin holy
The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God. Jonathan Edwards
god men duty
What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. James Madison
god wise powerful
The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it. James Madison
god war land
[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land. Emmanuel Jal
god choices world
The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will. John Haggai
god people honor
God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit. John Hagee
god angel doors
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. John Donne
god faith christianity
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else. John Donne
god eye men
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. John Donne
god gnats worms
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that. John Donne
god autumn moon
God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity. John Donne
godly people obeying-god
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God. John Ortberg
god jobs vacation
God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words. John Ortberg
god night men
And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, The less by night... John Milton
god kings rights
Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals; but come from the King of Kings and the Lord of all the earth. John Dickinson
godly mind doubt
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace. John Calvin
godly misery strive
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. John Calvin