QUOTES ON GOD

Quotations about God Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. ~Robert H. Schuller Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. ~St. Augustine Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God. ~James Weldon Johnson God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them. ~Author Unknown What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell A man with God is always in the majority. ~John Knox Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. ~Victor Hugo You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. ~Author Unknown Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. ~Author Unknown I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. ~Jules Renard A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. ~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. ~Teresa of Avila God's last name is not "Dammit." ~Author Unknown Once one has seen God, what is the remedy? ~Sylvia Plath, "Mystic" As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ~Woody Allen Clearly, God is a Democrat. ~Patrick Caddell God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins. ~Mark Twain But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. ~Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937 No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He Unswervingly believes in me. ~E.Y. Harburg, attributed People see God every day, they just don't recognize him. ~Pearl Bailey How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude. ~Andrew Dhuse Let God's promises shine on your problems. ~Corrie Ten Boom How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? ~Woody Allen, "Selections from the Allen Notebooks," Without Feathers, 1975 I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me. ~Author Unknown By night, an atheist half believes in God. ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that "a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them. ~George Santayana You found God? If nobody claims him in thirty days, he's yours! ~Author Unknown When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Correspondence God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa We strive to be God's worthy audience. ~Candea Core-Starke I wear a coat of angels' breath and warm myself with His love. ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ~Quentin Crisp Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~Diana Robinson Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together. ~Amethyst Snow-Rivers They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. ~Emily Dickinson If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout. ~Martin H. Fischer Some stand on tiptoe trying to reach God to talk to him - you try too hard, friend - drop to your knees and listen to him, he'll hear you better that way. ~Ever Garrison God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. ~E.M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born, 1973 It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. ~Joseph Joubert Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ~Garth Brooks God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down. ~H. Beerbohm-Tree Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. ~Anatole France, Le jardin d'Epicure How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 God enters by a private door into each individual. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson