God Quotes - Page 86

Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.

Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

The point of life is not to get anywhere-it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.

God doesn’t care what you’re not. He cares who you are. You are His, you come from the Master, and when He adds His extra to your ordinary and His super to your natural, nothing is impossible for you.

A grateful heart is like a sponge that soaks up God's goodness.

Your willingness to serve God is as important as your service to God.

As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of the sea, till it gradually becomes transformed into the same sea, and possesses all its qualities; so was my soul lost in God, who communicated to it His qualities, having drawn it out of all that it had of its own. Its life is an inconceivable innocence, not known or comprehended of those who are still shut up in themselves or only live for themselves.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Love God with all your mind.