Quotations about God

 Any fool can count the seeds in an apple.  Only God can count all the apples in one seed.  ~Robert H. Schuller


Every evening I turn my worries over to God.  He's going to be up all night anyway.  ~Mary C. Crowley


God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.  ~St. Augustine


Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.  ~James Weldon Johnson


God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them.  ~Author Unknown


What we are is God's gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God.  ~Eleanor Powell


A man with God is always in the majority.  ~John Knox


Certain thoughts are prayers.  There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.  ~Victor Hugo


You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list.  The longer your list, the smaller your God.  ~Author Unknown


Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.  ~Author Unknown


If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.  ~Jules Renard


A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.  ~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain


The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.  ~Edna St. Vincent Millay


God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.  ~Teresa of Avila


God's last name is not "Dammit."  ~Author Unknown


Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?  ~Sylvia Plath, "Mystic"


As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.  ~Woody Allen


Clearly, God is a Democrat.  ~Patrick Caddell


God:  The most popular scapegoat for our sins.  ~Mark Twain


But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.  ~Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937


No matter how much I prove and prod,
I cannot quite believe in God;
But oh, I hope to God that He
Unswervingly believes in me.
~E.Y. Harburg, attributed


People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.  ~Pearl Bailey


How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude.  ~Andrew Dhuse


Let God's promises shine on your problems.  ~Corrie Ten Boom


How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?  ~Woody Allen, "Selections from the Allen Notebooks," Without Feathers, 1975


I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me.  ~Author Unknown


By night, an atheist half believes in God.  ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts


Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that "a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."  At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.  ~George Santayana


You found God?  If nobody claims him in thirty days, he's yours!  ~Author Unknown


When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily.  It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Correspondence


God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.  ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning


I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.  I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.  ~Mother Teresa


In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all.  It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.  ~Quentin Crisp


Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.  ~Diana Robinson


Weave in faith and God will find the thread.  ~Author Unknown


They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.  ~Emily Dickinson


If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout.  ~Martin H. Fischer


God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.  ~E.M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born, 1973


It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.  ~Joseph Joubert


Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.  ~Garth Brooks


God is a sort of burglar.  As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.  ~H. Beerbohm-Tree


Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.  ~Anatole France, Le jardin d'Epicure


How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


God enters by a private door into each individual.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand.  If you understand you have failed.  ~Saint Augustine


God is not the name of God, but an opinion about Him.  ~Pope Xystus I, The Ring


God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.  ~David Nicholas


In nature we see where God has been.  In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


"What do you think of God," the teacher asked.  After a pause, the young pupil replied, "He's not a think, he's a feel."  ~Paul Frost


I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation.  ~Rev. Jerry Falwell


God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.  ~Jean Paul Richter


All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
~Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, 1734


Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.  ~Herbert Butterfield, Christianity and History


Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.  ~Alfred North Whitehead


Your talent is God's gift to you.  What you do with it is your gift back to God.  ~Leo Buscaglia; also, What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.  ~Hans Urs von Balthasar


God is the perfect poet.  ~Robert Browning


Remember this.  When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold.  When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness.  This is also the case when people withdraw from God.  ~Augustine


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