God Quotes (7398 Quotes)

It's not just talking the talk. It's walking the walk. The word of God inspires in ways you can't even imagine. Don't wait until the age of 35 to figure it out like I did.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

In her own simple way, Rosa Parks changed the history of our nation. She forced us to recognize the dignity of every person. She was a prophet -- a common instrument of God inviting us and challenging us to a new vision of solidarity, equality and justice. We were blessed to have her as citizen of Detroit.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

I believe there is a god with all the trust and the hope and the love that there is in me. I don't know that there is a god in the sense that I know you're sitting opposite me.

I think there's a sickness in the world. People are sick at heart and mind and spirit. People are just, 'Oh God, none of this belongs to me. Not this government, not this thing called America, not the decisions made about my life.' There's a sense of estrangement that's with us again.

Allah does not forbid you respecting those who have not made war against you on account of (your) religion, and have not driven you forth from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal with them justly surely Allah loves the doers of justice.

It's my belief that by giving to God, he honors you.

Ez fer war, I call it murder, There you hev it plain an' flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. .... . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

It's just great to be able to help a few people. I'm having fun with friends and I get to worship God.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

The book was very much a part of my continuing growing sense that I should go into the ministry. It was just that kind of sense that God was using the words of the book in some way that was unfathomable because it affected people's lives in an amazing way.

But I'll be so full life and joys,
Because my God doesn't play with little toys.

I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God.

If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

Intellectually I'd love to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Can't you just imagine me down in the streets yelling Stella Stella God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one.

You don't get anybody that is noncommittal about it - either they adore it or they can't stand it, ... A hundred years from now, somebody's going to look at that and say, Oh my God, that's just as beautiful as a 19th-century building.'

The theme of the local poetry contest is to glorify God in some way. If we get all these kids thinking about God, they will transform their neighborhood, their city, maybe the world.

God Most High has said, 'Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue' ... Know, O man, that the covenant of servanthood is incumbent upon you, and that the covenant of Lordship is incumbent upon His magnanimity, as He Most High has said, '... and fulfill your covenant, I shall fulfill My covenant.'

Or, Who originates the creation, then reproduces it and Who gives you sustenance from the heaven and the earth. Is there a god With Allah Say Bring your proof if you are truthful.

Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.

Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe The offering must be presented to some deity. Since God is pure and holy, and will accept nothing defiling in its character, He refuses this expensive, filthy, and unholy sacrifice therefore we conclude that Satan is the one who claims the honor.

And if you fear treachery on the part of a people, then throw back to them on terms of equality surely Allah does not love the treacherous.

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

Oh, my God. I'm sorry. This moment is so much bigger than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. ... It's for every nameless, faceless woman of color who now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

If we are to know God, we must read His words, for therein He stands revealed to the honest in heart.

Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I had a spot picked out. When it landed, I knew it was going to be a good shot. It got to the top of the hill, stopped, but I expected it to run farther to our right. It rolled a lot straighter than I thought. I think the golfing gods may have been there, because it broke a little less that what you think.

True guru alone knows everything, who feels the pain of separation from God.

I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

He Satan has power over us to that extent to tempt us in this fallen condition. At the same time we have the sweet influence of the Spirit of God pleading with us to do that which is right, pleading with every human being that does not drive it from him for every human being has a portion of the Spirit of God given unto him. We sometimes call it conscience we call it by one name and we call it by another but it is the Spirit of God that every man and woman possesses that is born on the earth. God has given unto all his children this Spirit.... Everywhere throughout the earth where man dwells this Spirit rests upon him. It comes from God. It pleads with man to do right. It pleads with man to resist the blandishments of Satan.

Boykin's organization keeps a short list of religious leaders he says are actively working against gay people. Seattle pastor Ken Hutcherson of the Antioch Bible Church made the cut for spearheading the first of a series of enormous anti-gay-marriage rallies. I have many people in my congregation who used to be homosexual, ... They have received counselingjust as any sinner can be counseledand they have repented. The black community that takes a liberal view of the Bible, they are saying you have to change with the times. For those of us who take the Bible as a literal guide to life, the black-and-white truths are set by God.

But he who fears an inclination to a wrong course or an act of disobedience on the part of the testator, and effects an agreement between the parties, there is no blame on him. Surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

All strangers and beggars are from God, And a gift, though small, is precious.

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

God helps those who help themselves.

Our deepest calling is not to grow in our knowledge of God. It is to make disciples. Our knowledge will grow -- the Holy Spirit, Jesus promised, will guide us into all truth. But that's not our calling, it is His. Our calling is to prepare the world for C

Karl Barth, the 20th-century theologian who pounded home the theme of God's sovereignty, saw no contradiction at all in a God who chooses to let prayers affect him. He is not deaf, he listens more than that, he acts. He does not act in the same way whether we pray or not. Prayer exerts an influence upon God's action, even upon his existence. That is what the word 'answer' means. ... The fact that God yields to man's petitions, changing his intentions in response to man's prayer, is not a sign of weakness. He himself, in the glory of his majesty and power, has so willed it.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Despising brother-man, you cannot, at the same time, worship God if you do, God will not accept that hypocrisy. God is resident in every heart so, if you serve any one, that service reaches God within him, it brings to you the Grace of God.

God only knows what we'll see. I already have whiplash from all the colorful, hippy, boho looks from summer to the black, black, black and more black for fall. I hope now that I've bought my black, it's here for a while.