988 private quotes tagged god

“God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.”— Willie Aames

“Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.”— Bill Maher

“I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.”— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.”— Prince

“If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.”— William Law

“More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.”— Ramakrishna

“From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.”— Howard Dean

“He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.”— John Donne

“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.”— John Stuart Mill

“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.”— Gustave Flaubert

“Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.”— Simone Weil

“God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”— Miguel de Cervantes

“Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.”— Freeman Dyson

“When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.”— Peter O'Toole

“All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”— Charles A. Beard

“If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word.”— Charles Stanley

“I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.”— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.”— Salman Rushdie

“Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.”— Lil Wayne

“I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.”— Mike Epps

“Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.”— Arnold J. Toynbee

“O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.”— George Whitefield

“If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?”— John Cleese

“There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.”— Henry Van Dyke

“I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.”— Joan Rivers