Quotes on God

And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.