Benevolent God Quotes

#1. I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.

Gary Numan

#2. I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.

Paul Rudnick

#3. If a benevolent God exists, so does reincarnation. He wouldn't send me here just once.

Zach Braff

#4. Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.

Ann Voskamp

#5. The exercise of my reason itself was forbidden. But the questions never stopped coming, eventually leading to this one: "Why would a benevolent God set up the world like this, marking one half of the population to be second-class citizens? Or was it just men who did this?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#6. Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly afflict even children and babies, who were not guilty of any sin?

Donna Woolfolk Cross

#7. Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

Michel De Montaigne

#8. You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

Hans Bender

#9. No, the idea of a benevolent god was very much an exception in the enormous pantheon of gods that people had invented over the course of human history.

Alexander McCall Smith

#10. Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

William A. Dembski

#11. If an all-powerful, benevolent God allows untold suffering, then that God is either not all-powerful or not benevolent.

James W. Mercer

#12. What we moderns call "addictions" God calls "idols," and all of God's good gifts are meant to raise our eyes in thanksgiving to our benevolent heavenly Father, not to fix our eyes on the gifts themselves.

Michael S. Horton

#13. I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty.

Wendy Liebman

#14. In a few years you may find a Starbucks, which will bring the town what it yearns for: prepackaged, preapproved mainstream hipness.

Gillian Flynn

#15. But there's also an upside-down sort of happiness, a black happiness, that comes from doing evil to others.

Amos Oz

#16. I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

Julia Child

#17. Satan and that man is still man even after 1000 years of the righteous, benevolent rule of Christ on earth. Even under the most ideal circumstances imaginable, man is still totally depraved and in desperate need of a new heart by the regeneration of the Spirit of God.

Mark Hitchcock

#18. Grace is the state of being in which we are loved unconditionally and all that we need is provided for us by the benevolent hand of God.

Alan Cohen

#19. Benevolent hands reach down from heaven to offer us the most hopeful warning and remedy: Prepare to meet your God.

Billy Graham

#20. I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

Tarsem Singh

#21. But deep this truth impress'd my mind:
Thro' all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent and kind
The most resembles God.

Robert Burns

#22. Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

Scott Dikkers

#23. Firstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author.

Josiah Bartlett

#24. God's benevolent reign requires the principles of love

Sunday Adelaja

#25. When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

Ronald Knox

#26. I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.

C.S. Lewis

#27. Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living things. But the interpreters of his doctrines have confounded the good and the evil principle.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#28. People who change their values, their ethics, are not trustworthy and should be avoided.

Dave Ramsey

#29. There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.

Pope John Paul II

#30. Awakening of intelligence into awareness,
Contemplation and realization is the sole purpose of #life.

Gian Kumar

#31. You have ripped my fucking heart out, Neva and what's worse is that I love you far too fucking much to hate you for it.

Sofie Hartley

#32. Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

Phillips Brooks

#33. I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say that, I mean I'm - part of that is that the idea that God could be all-powerful and also benevolent is on its face contradictory.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#34. It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

Sigmund Freud

#35. For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery.

Ronald Reagan

#36. If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side.

Richard Rohr

#37. For ... if love is not infinite or eternal? Then I want nothing of it.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#38. Love is a strange but wonderful. Who realy knows what it is? I know what it is to me ... its you.

Jordanblue1101

#39. I think it's an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit.

Kristen Wiig

#40. I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

Richard P. Feynman

#41. Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes ... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

Kazimir Malevich