God Quotes

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

God made the country, and man made the town.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

Every morning that I wake up and I'm breathing, I can feel it and take a moment to say, you know, 'Thank God I'm alive for another day.'

God's delays are not God's denials.

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry's class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to teach us all: Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

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