The God Quotes

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.

We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains

Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of an ever-changing world.

In a moment everything could suddenly change, but God and His promises remain the same.

[A]ny being with thesupposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration.

The true adventurer sees his glass as half full even when there are things swimming in it.

The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality but they are highly religious.

[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes ofa being that does not exist.

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.

Worry denies the power of God and produces no good results. Worry adds no value to your life. Eliminate it with God’s help.

The Ten Commandments, for example, were no more challenging than the Girl Scout oath, and why should anyone be tempted to put one false god ahead of another?

Try going out of your comfort zone and doing something for someone else.

All the wealth in this sinful world, cannot buy one second of life in God's Paradise.

Gold is cold, and men who possess much of it are infected with its chill.

I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.

Underneath all notions of justice is a set of faith assumptions that are essentially religious, and these are often not acknowledged.

He is the God of all, and His concern is for all.

We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.

When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

Emotions embarassed her except when she sang. My dad said that was exactly why she sang.

Godly despair cries out for perspective but allows the hollowness of loss to move the heart to seek God.

Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in the past. They can't hurt us anymore.

God didn’t make Adam and Eve because He was lonely or because He needed someone to love Him in return. God is complete in Himself

Programming language is to the computer

Jesus let the disciples know that they were striving in the wrong direction. They were trying to climb up a ladder that they instead should be climbing down.

We can be at peace through the realization that the adversity is beneficial to act as the genuine demand for wisdom and spiritual power.

Prayer is the key that opens heaven

The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important

When you have got the greatest mountain of hardship that you’ve ever faced to deal with, you also have the greatest opportunity to act on a stronger faith than you’ve ever acted on before.

The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.

For years, I believed that God had been in motion on rare occasions and during biblical times, but I didn't understand that God never stops working on my behalf.

The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.

God, the Creator of everything, is not a person but a power and presence whose work is based on definite principles which we call ‘Cosmic Laws’ or ‘Natural Laws’ or ‘Universal Laws’.

Peace is something that comes from within. It is created by your willingness to accept yourself.

True faith in God through Jesus Christ, must be manifested with fearless spirit and obedience to God's law. Joshua 1:1-11

...there are natural consequences for not taking care of our bodies.

The sun loved me again when it saw that the stars would not abandon me.

Most people never realize that loneliness is a gift from God. Not only can it draw us closer to Jesus, it can teach us to cherish a long-awaited marriage relationship all the more.

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.

Nos·tal·gia (n):A feeling that lingers long after the taste is gone.

The human quest for justice is an expression of the moral content of the fundamental laws of physics, which reveals itself in the search for a supreme law and a supreme lawmaker.

[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom."-William F Buckley

There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.

Really, what is the law when it stands in the way of what the government wants to do?

As a God, you can only ever be as healthy as yourworshippers. They are after all what your body is made of.

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves.