God Quotes - Page 97

God made the country, and man made the town.

The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.

There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.

The deepest need of humans is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God. We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of the soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but in the manifestation. Between me and the smallest animal, the difference is only in manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. This is the greatest principle that India has preached.

The greatest sense of love, which is available for us at all times, is God's love.

The Word of God will bring you into a wonderful place of rest in faith.

Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.

My prayers are just an outpouring of gratitude for the assurance of that most completely desired Will of God, which will seem all the more desirable in all that is ahead.

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.

If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for God.

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is worthy of that trust. In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.

Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is godliness.

The one who is truly born again will love the Word of God.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased.

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.