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God Quotes


"Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary."
God,


"A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people."



"God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning."


"The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue."


"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide."


"But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part."


"If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself."


"God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west."



"I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned."


"If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so?"


"Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion."


"In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone."


"Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone."


"I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything."


"Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century."


"God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter."
God,


"The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him."


"The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased."



"I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity."


"I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent."


"The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'"



"But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite."


"One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted."


"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."


"If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me."


"Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him."
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