God Quotes

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.

I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars.

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.