Quotes on God

Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.