God Quotes

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

The process is very gradual, you see. At first there's the tainted stage; they know what will eventually happen to them if they go on but they say, 'Oh God, don't do it to me do it again, please, please.'

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

God made them as stubble to our swords.

They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

Be sweet and honest always, but for God's sake don't eat my doughnuts!

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

God has been faithful time and again to surround me with people that sharpen me and that make me better.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.

As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God.

Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.

I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus.

I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.