Quotes about god
god trying inches
I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God. Anne Sexton
god snakes elephants
To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.
god sea religion
God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.
god contentment red
Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.
god writing saint
Great writers are the saints for the godless. Anita Brookner
god years signals
A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures. Ambrose Bierce
god names select
Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
god nature mind
How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds. Alice Walker
god thinking world
God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.
god experience possibility
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
god thinking church
...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 money giving
if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to. Anne Lamott
god dog lying
I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.
god real kids
When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration on their faces, clearly convinced that their efforts are causing the car to do whatever it is doing, he thinks of himself and his relationship with God: God who drives along silently, gently amused, in the real driver's seat.
god love-you school
A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.
god prayer water
Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.
god father personality
Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.
god believe sky
Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace. Alphonse de Lamartine
god judging court
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
god islam purpose
Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation. Aga Khan IV
god winning sky
The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship. Aeschylus
god work together
God always strives together with those who strive.
god words
I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.
god kindness daily-life
Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life. Alexander MacLaren
god vision divine
The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.
god christian spring
God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.
god men psychology
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Alexander Pope
god angel pride
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
god wind clouds
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
god wind clouds
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
god wise men
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
god lows bounds
To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
god heart kingdoms
There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts. Albert Schweitzer