988 private quotes tagged god

“I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.”— Jimmy Carter

“On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.”— Tim Tebow

“To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.”— Prem Rawat

“Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.”— Joan Rivers

“God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.”— Alfred Korzybski

“If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.”— Mel Brooks

“Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.”— Joel Osteen

“God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.”— Naguib Mahfouz

“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”— Saint Augustine

“If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.”— Joan Rivers

“God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.”— Abdul Kalam

“God never made a promise that was too good to be true.”— Dwight L. Moody

“When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.”— Jane Wagner

“Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.”— Edwin Louis Cole

“As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.”— Neale Donald Walsch

“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.”— Joel Osteen

“We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice.”— Pope Paul VI

“What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.”— Rick Warren

“I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.”— Martin Lawrence

“The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.”— Alexander Hamilton

“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.”— Saint Augustine

“But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.”— Ellen G. White

“When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.”— Michael Jackson

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”— Alice Walker