Quotes on God

People ask me a lot, 'How can you smile all the time?' I tell them, 'I was never angry. God created me this way. He created me laughing and smiling.'

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

Each woman brings her own separate, unique strengths to the family and the Church. Being a daughter of God means that if you seek it, you can find your true identity.

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain, I would be helpless. Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets.

I know I didn't deserve this, but God has given me this baseball ability. So I've got to do whatever I can to honor him.

I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.

And lips say “God be pitiful,” Who ne'er said “God be praised.”

I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barbarians, a proselyte and an exile, for the love of God.