What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.
Billy GrahamOccasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.
Charles SpurgeonIf God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander PopeSometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.
Thomas SowellIt may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.
Arthur C. ClarkeThere are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
Henry FordGod looks after children, animals and idiots.
Lou HoltzWe often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThere are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma GandhiI tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Jean-Paul SartreI tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas JeffersonGod not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen HawkingGod isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
Aldous HuxleyGod cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. LewisI thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.
Mr. TYes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.
Joyce MeyerThat we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Blaise PascalSure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.
Keanu ReevesThere is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma GandhiFor where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Martin LutherFaith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.
Joel OsteenMy message is that God is a good God.
Joel OsteenI believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.
Joyce MeyerEverything is subject to change except God Himself.
Joyce MeyerWhat is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David ThoreauThe Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
Billy GrahamGod works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin FranklinWe think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.
Joel OsteenDon’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
Martin Luther King, Jr.God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
Emily DickinsonChina has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.
Bill GatesIf God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.
Joyce MeyerRocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.
John MuirThe difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan WattsGod created man, but I could do better.
Erma BombeckOnly he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma GandhiThere are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
Blaise PascalThere are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.
Billy GrahamI would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Friedrich NietzscheThe religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
Alan WattsI believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.
Robert Baden-PowellThe main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.
Joel OsteenThere’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.
Joel OsteenAnd poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Stephen KingA subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich NietzscheNature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander PopeGod and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.
Dolly PartonThe end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
SocratesI don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.
Joel OsteenPurposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.
Charles SpurgeonSince God created the world, He also created reality.
Pope FrancisMorality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
Albert EinsteinThere is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.
Charles SpurgeonThe god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William JamesPeople often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
Desmond TutuWine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin FranklinWhosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
AristotleAs a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
Isaac NewtonWe may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu