God Bird Quotes

#1. A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#2. When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind - with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows
the laws of God and can apply them? - Author: Florence Nightingale

#3. I am a bird of God's garden
and I do not belong to this dusty world
For a day or two they have put me here
in this cage of my own body
I did not come here of my own
I will not return of my own
to my own country. - Author: Rumi

#4. With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,
flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one
end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist
attacks, Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of
the Pledge of Allegiance? - Author: Jay Leno

#5. God, says Handy, or the Eternal Spark, is in every human heart, in every piece of this earth. In this rock, in this ice, in this plant, this bird. All deserve our gentleness. The - Author: Lauren Groff

#6. "His words moved people closer to God." I'd be happy if that's what people said about me at the end of the day. It's always been my calling. - Author: Brian Bird

#7. In our eagerness to solve life we start out to trace its mysteries and trample God's truths as we search. As we return we discover the shattered treasures, and gladly stoop to gather up the fragments, and with them translate the revelations of the soul. - Author: Margaret Bird Steinmetz

#8. Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing. - Author: Alexander Pope

#9. To make the cross of Jesus just about human salvation is to miss that God is interested in the saving of everything. Every star and rock and bird. All things. - Author: Rob Bell

#10. My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet ... oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool. - Author: Anthony Jeselnik

#11. If God were an object to the bird, he would be a winged being[.] - Author: Ludwig Feuerbach

#12. Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only! - Author: Emily Dickinson

#13. Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power. - Author: Maud Lindsay

#14. The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, beginning as the smallest of seeds but growing until the birds of the air make their nests therein. There are old worlds and new ones. There are earthy worlds and cyber worlds. But one truth remains the same now and forever, that Jesus rules them all. - Author: R.C. Sproul Jr.

#15. Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan. - Author: Larry Bird

#16. The bird is fighting its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever wishes to be born must destroy a world. The bird is flying to God. The god is named Abraxas." After - Author: Hermann Hesse

#17. We all got to die," she said. "But dying as your true self is always better. God'll take you however you come to Him. But it's easier on a soul to come to Him clean. You're forever free that way. From top to bottom. - Author: James McBride

#18. God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me. - Author: Emily Dickinson

#19. Madelaine: I guess it's up to you to carve the turkey.
Angel: Come on, bro, show me how to carve up this bird.
Francis: Start at the breast, Angel. God knows, you should know how to do that. - Author: Kristin Hannah

#20. Oh, he'll help us whether he wants to or not. I told the truth. I would not kill him. The death-curse of a god is an evil thing.
But I can hurt him. And I will.
And besides ...
Have you never wondered, little bird, what it must be like to see the world through the eyes of a god? - Author: Neil Gaiman

#21. Only is a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time. - Author: Peter Kreeft

#22. God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy. - Author: Enrique Penalosa

#23. That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him. - Author: Martin Luther

#24. God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest. - Author: P.D. James

#25. I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we? - Author: Rose Kennedy

#26. Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you. - Author: Soren Kierkegaard

#27. Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player. - Author: Larry Bird

#28. In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy. - Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#29. Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. The psalmist saith more to the point about true happiness in this short Psalm than any one of the philosophers, or all of them put together; they did but beat the bush, God hath here put the bird into our hand. John Trapp, 1660 - Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#31. For the bird that cannot soar, God has provided low branches. - Author: Louis De Bernieres

#32. Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine? - Author: Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#33. Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God. - Author: Rumi

#34. Theology is speaking about God while in the very presence of God. We are intimately engaged with the subject of our study. - Author: Michael F. Bird

#35. If you rely on God as He ought to be relied upon, He will provide you as He provides the birds; they go out empty and hungry in the morning and come back big bellied at eventide. - Author: Muhammad

#36. God, I wish I was free. I wish I was a bird floating in the breeze. - Author: Katie McGarry

#37. Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts. - Author: Maia Wojciechowska

#38. A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. - Author: Larry Bird

#39. My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird - Author: Hannah Whitall Smith

#40. When you defile the pleasant streams,
And the wild bird's abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams,
And cast your spittle in God's face - Author: John Drinkwater

#41. Pain has been and grief enough and bitterness and crying,
Sharp ways and stony ways I think it was she trod;
But all there is to see now is a white bird flying,
Whose blood-stained wings go circling high - circling up to God! - Author: Margaret Widdemer

#42. These false answers such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD. - Author: Meher Baba

#43. The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun. - Author: Khalil Gibran

#44. Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away. - Author: Winston Groom

#45. Larry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it. - Author: Howie Chizek

#46. Larry Bird is like a basketball god to me for what he's done for my career. - Author: Jalen Rose

#47. Better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table. - Author: Nathanael West

#48. A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
God doesn't vanish:
The fire brightens.
Each creature God made
must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God? - Author: Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#49. Never 'it,' never 'it,' " Marya chided. "None of God's creatures is an 'it,' even if they're not a boy or a girl or a mammal or a pretty bird. Call them 'he' or she' and be a little wrong, but never take away their individuality like that. - Author: Mira Grant

#50. God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars
If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears. - Author: Robinson Jeffers

#51. God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness. - Author: John Powell

#52. All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken praise. Field and forest, vale and mountain, Flowery meadow, flashing sea, Chanting bird and flowing fountain, Call us to rejoice in Thee. - Author: Henry Van Dyke

#53. Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven. - Author: Suzy Kassem

#54. I never kid about my warrior demigod status."
"Oh. My. God." I lower my voice, having forgotten to whisper. "You are nothing but a bird with an attitude. Okay, so you have a few muscles, I'll grant you that. But you know, a bird is nothing but a barely evolved lizard. That's what you are. - Author: Susan Ee

#55. I love the freedom of my wings. I love the empty space above the ground. I rejoice in my freedom. Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship. - Author: Banani Ray

#56. Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees, mountains and moons and all the dancing distances between the heavenlies filled with the unending song of Creation. - Author: Geoffrey Wood

#57. God is an early bird; satan is a night owl. Everyone knows that. - Author: Jon Acuff

#58. God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. J. G. HOLLAND - Author: Dave Ramsey

#59. Then you pray the prayer that is the essence of every ritual: God, I have no hope. I am torn to shreds. You are my first and my last and only refuge. Don't do daily prayers like a bird pecking, moving its head up and down. Prayer is an egg. Hatch out the total helplessness inside. - RUMI - Author: Tim Farrington

#60. God continually turns you from one state of feeling to another, revealing truth by means of opposites.... So that you may have the two wings of fear and hope; for the bird with one wing is unable to fly.... - Author: Jalaluddin Rumi

#61. Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile. - Author: Soren Kierkegaard

#62. You can safely assume you've remade God in your own image when it turns out God hates the same people you do. Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird - Author: Janis Bragan Balda

#63. For a moment, upon waking, he had NO idea at all who he was. It was a tremendously liberating feeling, as if he were free to be whatever he wanted to be: he could be anyone at all, able to try on any identity; he could be a man or a woman; a rat or a bird, a monster or a god. - Author: Neil Gaiman

#64. Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged, and Winged." Indian writers usually say "God," "Mother Earth," "Human Being, Dog, and Bird." - Author: Sherman Alexie

#65. Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world. - Author: Jorge Luis Borges

#66. The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall. - Author: Robert Southwell

#67. No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#68. Where logic seems apparent: in bullfrogs or Black-Eyed Susans bird migrations patterns on the skin of newt or carp we go too far imagining a god of purposes. - Author: John Burnside

#69. Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God. - Author: Charles Spurgeon

#70. The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas. - Author: Hermann Hesse

#71. But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God. - Author: Saadi

#72. What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? - Author: Pedro Calderon De La Barca

#73. When she spread her wings and leaped screeching into the air she had not the slightest doubt that every hand below her would stretch to catch her. And if one could leap from a height with no fear of falling, could one not be said to possess the secret of flight? Just like a bird, just like a god. - Author: David Anthony Durham

#74. The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life. - Author: Henry Ward Beecher

#75. Loneliness made or ruined a man. It frightened him so that he must either sing and build in the face of the dark, like a bird or a beaver, or hide from it like a beast in his den. There were perhaps always only the two ways to go, God or the jungle. - Author: Elizabeth Goudge

#76. These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator. - Author: George Q. Cannon

#77. If God is real, I think he might be some kind of masochist. I imagine he sits there up on his cloud, long white robes flowing, drinking a forty of Mickey's and smoking a Winston as he flips me the bird and plans what he'll do next to piss me off. - Author: T.J. Klune

#78. Don't let someone keep putting out the flame God keeps re-lighting, we all have a purpose. As a wing to a bird. As wind that goes the destiny over the sea. - Author: Anthony Liccione

#79. The little birds have God for their caterer. - Author: Miguel De Cervantes

#80. What a joy it is to look at loved ones, flowers, trees, the sky, bird, mountains, babies, and sunsets, to mention a very few things, and know how special they really are. What a joy it is to see the hand of God around you constantly, even in a troubled world. - Author: Van Harden

#81. Nor bird nor beast
Could make me wish for anything this day,
Being old, but that the old alone might die,
And that would be against God's Providence. - Author: William Butler Yeats

#82. Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of keeping me from becoming too mean. And when he sends a nice one to me, then I have to eat crow. And honey, crow is a tough old bird to eat, let me tell you. - Author: Annie Elizabeth Delany

#83. God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you. - Author: James McBride

#84. He's going to be what?! Oh for God's sake. Sir David Beckham? You're having a laugh. He's just a good footballer with a famous bird. - Author: Ian Holloway