988 private quotes tagged god

“Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.” — Henri Nouwen

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“Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.” — Marguerite Duras

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“God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.” — Billy Graham

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“One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.” — Malcolm Muggeridge

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“Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.” — Ted Nugent

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“If you don't do your part, don't blame God.” — Billy Sunday

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“God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.” — Joel Osteen

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“God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.” — Desmond Tutu

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“One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.” — Mariah Carey

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“My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.” — Ziggy Marley

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“Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.” — Shaquille O'Neal

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“Sex is God's joke on human beings.” — Bette Davis

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“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.” — James Russell Lowell

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“I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.” — Jenny McCarthy

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“The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.” — Jim Elliot

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“One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.” — Meister Eckhart

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“God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.” — Ziggy Marley

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“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.” — Oswald Chambers

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“I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.” — Arthur C. Clarke

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“I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.” — Susan B. Anthony

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“God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.” — Saint Teresa of Avila

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“The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.” — Joan Chen

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“God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive.” — Edwin Louis Cole

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“God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.” — Charles Stanley

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“By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.” — Barbara Mandrell

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