God Quotes

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

David wasn't thinking of being king when he was tending sheep; he was just doing what God sat before him.

Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected.

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance.

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.

We get done with the game, and it's an absolute downpour 30 minutes later. That's when I thought God was telling me that's enough-time for you to go do something else.

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.