988 private quotes tagged god

“We must return to nature and nature's god.” — Luther Burbank

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“If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.” — Joseph Wood Krutch

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“In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.” — Charles Stanley

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“God will forgive me. It's his job.” — Heinrich Heine

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“They always win who side with God.” — Frederick William Faber

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“God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.” — Alfred Jarry

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“As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.” — Stockwell Day

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“Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.” — Stevie Ray Vaughan

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“I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.” — Billy Graham

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“The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.” — Pope Shenouda III

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“God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.” — Arthur Peacocke

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“I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.” — Bob Marley

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“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.” — Vincent McNabb

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

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

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

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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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“The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.” — Emmet Fox

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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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“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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“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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“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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