Quotes on God

Sooner or later a man has simply got to do what he thinks is right, no matter what other people, or the courts, or his friends, or his enemies, or God himself may tell him.

I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Being called 'The Heartbreak Kid', 'Mr. Wrestlemania,' and all those other names doesn't even begin to compare to what it feels like to know that the Almighty God who created the universe calls me His child.

Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

God is not distant: he is 'Emmanuel,' God-with-us. He is no stranger: he has a face, the face of Jesus.

Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

Do you know why I love God? Because Heaven is real. And one day, when we get to Heaven, we are going to have arms and legs. And we are going to run, and we are going play, and we are going to race.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.