988 private quotes tagged god

“I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.” — Charles Stanley

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

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“We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.” — Karen Armstrong

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“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.” — Mother Teresa

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“God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'” — Billy Graham

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“Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, m--------e, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.” — Madonna Ciccone

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“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” — Mother Teresa

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“Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.” — Mother Teresa

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“I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.” — Lil' Kim

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“I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.” — Lenny Kravitz

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“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.” — James Russell Lowell

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“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'” — Stephen King

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“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.” — Erma Bombeck

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“God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.” — Jean Paul

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“Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.” — Christopher Love

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“We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.” — Sarah Palin

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“God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.” — Xenophanes

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“I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.” — Mother Teresa

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“If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.” — Francis of Assisi

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“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.” — Arthur Young

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“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.” — Desmond Tutu

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“Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.” — Billy Graham

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“If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.” — Zig Ziglar

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