Category: God Quotes SMS

God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.  ~Timaeus of LocrisMCDD

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.  ~Augustine

God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.  ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Young man, young man, your arm’s too short to box with God.  ~James Weldon Johnson

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.  ~Anatole France, Le jardin d’Epicure

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.  Really.  ~Lenny Bruce, "Religions Inc.," in The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen, 1967MCDD

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?  ~Woody Allen, "Selections from the Allen Notebooks," Without Feathers, 1975MCDD

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all.  It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.  […]

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

No God, no peace.  Know God, know peace.  ~Author Unknown

‘T is heaven alone that is given away, ‘T is only God may be had for the asking;… ~James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.  ~Diana Robinson

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.  ~Leo Tolstoy, Last Diaries, 1960MCDD

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.  ~Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van […]

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.  ~Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest, 1886MCDD

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

Life is God’s novel.  Let him write it.  ~Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted by Dom Maraes, ed., Voices for Life, 1975; MCDD

People see God every day, they just don’t recognize him.  ~Pearl Bailey, quoted in the New York Times, 26 November 1967, MCDD

I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn’t seem to matter.  ~Christopher Morley, Inward Ho!, 1923MCDD

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn’t, He is behaving like God.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960CDN, TPV

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 […]

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

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.  ~Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937MCDD

Some people talk about finding God – as if He could get lost.  ~Author UnknownMCDD

I talk to God but the sky is empty.  ~Sylvia Plath

Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?  ~Sylvia Plath, "Mystic"

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.  ~Garth Brooks

Every evening I turn my worries over to God.  He’s going to be up all night anyway.  ~Mary C. Crowley

Hunting God is a great adventure.  ~Marie DeFloris

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.  ~Teresa of Avila

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.  ~Alfred Jarry, Gestes et Opinions du Docteur Faustroll Pataphysicien, 1911MCDD

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.  ~Miguel de Unamuno

You found God?  If nobody claims him in thirty days, he’s yours!  ~Author Unknown

Clearly, God is a Democrat.  ~Patrick CaddellMCDD

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.  ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.  ~R. Buckminster Fuller, No More Secondhand God, 1963MCDD

Your talent is God’s gift to you.  What you do with it is your gift back to God.  ~Leo BuscagliaMCDD; also, What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.  ~Hans Urs von Balthasar

When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.  ~Author Unknown

Outer fire we need to cook.  Inner fire we need to liberate.  God’s Fire we need to love.  ~Sri Chinmoy

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

What we are is God’s gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God.  ~Eleanor Powell

"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.  […]

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

When you knock, ask to see God – none of the servants.  ~Henry David ThoreauMCDD; CUL

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

I believe in God; I just don’t trust anyone who works for him.  ~Author Unknown

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."  ~C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 1943MCDD

The beckoning Hands Of God’s hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man’s prayerful heart. ~Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames

"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."  ~Paul Frost

Man is born broken.  He lives by mending.  The grace of God is glue.  ~Eugene O’Neill, The Great God Brown, 1926WLBUQ

In nature we see where God has been.  In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Be God or let God.  ~Author Unknown

Don’t look for God where He is needed most; if you didn’t bring Him there, He isn’t there. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966csn,tpv

God’s will is not an itinerary, but an attitude.  ~Andrew Dhuse

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

Been taken for granted? Imagine how God feels. ~Author Unknown

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.  ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862WLBUQ

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.  ~Jean Paul Richter

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

God is not the name of God, but an opinion about Him.  ~Pope Xystus I, The RingMCDD

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.  ~E.M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born, 1973MCDD

We strive to be God’s worthy audience. ~Terri Guillemets

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

If you are bathed In God’s Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you. ~Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames

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.  ~Herbert Butterfield, Christianity and HistorySH

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

God enters by a private door into each individual.  ~Ralph Waldo EmersonMCDD

How many stanzas in the springtime breeze? How plenty the raindrops? As He doth please. There is no meter and there is no rhyme, Yet God’s poems always read in perfect time. ~Terri Guillemets

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors. ~Malcolm de Chazalmcdd

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.  ~Author Unknown

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. ~Malcolm Muggeridgeqtd in News Summaries, 31 Dec 1978; mcdd

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.  ~Catherine Marshall, Christy, 1967MCDD

The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966CSN

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

What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell – this invisible thing that heals all sorrows, reveals all lies and renews all hope?  What is it that has always been and always will be, from whose bosom we all came and to which […]

By night, an atheist half believes in God.  ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts, 1742-1745, Night 5, l. 177, PMB

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.  ~Jean Rostand, Carnets d’un Biologiste, 1962MCDD

I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.  ~Jules Renard

I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.  ~Mary Gardiner Brainard