God Quotes - Page 124

God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.

Once He created the Big Bang... He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of life-forms and billions of kinds of intelligent beings. As a theologian, I would say that the proposed search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is also a search of knowing and understanding God through his works - especially those works that most reflect Him. Finding others than ourselves would mean knowing Him better.

I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing.

God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.

We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.

We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won a gamble with his own conscience. Even should he think he has beaten his conscience into submission, his misdeeds still leave their mark upon him. Anyone who gambles against this fact has already lost his gamble.

He who will pray to God eagerly will see Him.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.

Worship is not about my enjoyment. It is about my enjoyment of God. It is not about my pleasure or my delight or my satisfaction. It is about my pleasure, delight, and satisfaction in God. Worship is not simply about glorifying God. It is about glorifying God by enjoying Him forever.

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

To Love is to reach God.

Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.

I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

I don't believe you really know God if you do not recognize His sense of humor.

We need to mock false gods publicly.

In the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste; gracious men have a spiritual palate as well as a spiritual eye. Grace alters the spiritual taste.

"Oh, ancient god, whatever your name," whispered Ahmed. "Help this lost son of a good father, this evil boy who meant no harm but slept in school, ran errands slowly, did not pray from his heart, ignored his mother, and did not hold his family in great esteem. For all this I know I must suffer. But here in the midst of silence, at the desert's heart, where even the wind knows not my name? Must I die so young? Am I to be forgotten without having been?"

We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.