Religious Quotes

True faith is to have confidence in who God is

I asked god for a flower, He gave me a bauquet. I asked god for a minute, He gave me a day. I asked god for true love, He gave me that too. I asked god for an angel, He gave me you.

God in heaven, God above. Please protect the one I love. Sent with a smile,Closed with a kiss. I really love the one who's reading this.

If you're going my way, I'll walk with you.

Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.

Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them.

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

A man with God is always in the majority.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God.

Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

God's last name is not "Dammit."

Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?

As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Clearly, God is a Democrat.

God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He Unswervingly believes in me.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude.

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me.

By night, an atheist half believes in God.

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that "a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

You found God? If nobody claims him in thirty days, he's yours!

When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us.

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

We strive to be God's worthy audience.

I wear a coat of angels' breath and warm myself with His love.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout.

Some stand on tiptoe trying to reach God to talk to him - you try too hard, friend - drop to your knees and listen to him, he'll hear you better that way.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

God enters by a private door into each individual.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

God is the perfect poet.

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

God is not the name of God, but an opinion about Him.

God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.

"What do you think of God," the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, "He's not a think, he's a feel."

I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

We can never escape God's lovely essence.

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to God for a faith lift.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Really.

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

When you knock, ask to see God - none of the servants.

Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself.

Most people wish to serve God - but only in an advisory capacity.

I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.

The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers.

A lot of people are willing to give God credit, but so few ever give Him cash.

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.

To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking;...

We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.

No pillow so soft as God's promise.

The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Some people talk about finding God - as if He could get lost.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?

I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will - I see God everywhere!

Is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders?

I believe in God; I just don't trust anyone who works for him.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

All that I have seen teaches me to trust God for all I have not seen.

"I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all," Teddy said. "It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.

Peace on the outside comes from knowing God on the inside.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

Hunting God is a great adventure

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.

Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.

God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Some people always sigh in thanking God.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

If God asks that you bend, bend and do not complain. He is making you more flexible, and for this be thankful.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

God - the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.

Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design.

Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn't seem to matter.

Don't question God, for He may reply: "If you're so anxious for answers, come up here."

I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.

Availability is better than ability for God.

Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God.

If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved?

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

When we put our cares in His hands, He puts His peace in our hearts.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

Exercise daily. Walk with the Lord!

Be God or let God.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God; and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.

I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent.

God can never be a definition. He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary.

Darkness cannot put out the Light. It can only make God brighter.

No God, no peace. Know God, know peace.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?