The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

God to me is love.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

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

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Occasionally, 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.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

God made me and broke the mold.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

God always wants us to be growing.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.