God Quotes

You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe, a harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Forgiveness is . . . accepting God's sovereign use of people and situations to strip you of self importance, and humiliate your self love.

Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realized that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me.

Pray like it all depends on God. Live like it all depends on you.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

He who has God plus many other things has no more than he who has God alone.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

People are ... self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. ... The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the end, it is between you and HIM, not you and them.

Evey Hammond: I'm Evey.
V: Evey? E-V. Of course you are.
Evey Hammond: What does that mean?
V: It means that I, like God, do not play with dice and I don't believe in coincidences.

If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing - rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.