God Quotes - Page 150

You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."

We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

The hardest thing for me is crying. Where I'm from, it's been instilled in me since I was little that men don't cry. Thank God for teardrops and menthol.

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love.

Others - as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders - serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few - as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men - serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part.

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

Let’s not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God.

No atheist says there is no god!

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

Most talented with a God given talent for weaving words of heartfelt wonder.

According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation--a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on from fact Divine He advances, until at length in His Son Jesus He unveils His very face.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.