top of page
God Quotes


"I thank God for not making me a computer scientist."


"Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God."


"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."


"I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found."
God,


"O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed."


"I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman."



"True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings."


"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."


"I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind."



"God as my witness, may He strike me down if this allegation is true."



"If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included."
God,



"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."


"Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?"



"In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it."



"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."


"God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull."


"They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!"


"The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation."


"I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence."


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


"If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me." and "Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me."


"To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them."


"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
bottom of page