Top 100 God Society Quotes
#2. If God had a church it would not be split up into factions, and that if he taught one society to worship one way, and administer in one set of ordinances, He would not teach another, principles which were diametrically opposed.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#3. From an Islamic point of view, women are as responsible as men to help people finding their way to God (S.W.T), and to guide society in the right path with all the power they have.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#4. AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
Jerry Falwell
#5. If we want a great future in this world, we have to take God at his word, and God makes it really clear that society and civilization is held together by the glue of families ... This is where the next generation of human beings are incubated and nurtured and matured - in homes. In families.
Kirk Cameron
#6. The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.
Abraham Lincoln
#7. The current moral decay perceived in society has often been blamed on the lack of God in the public schools. During the Great Depression God was prominent in the schools, hence She must have caused the depression. Challenge my logic.
Eric Welch
#8. In this age of humanism, man is seduced by society with the lie that he can become his own god ... the New Age movement is polluted with self and it will never bow before God - at least not until Christ returns.
Billy Graham
#9. I think something innate in us understands that seeking the good of society is usually best for the individual as well. Humankind is noble, when we give it the chance to be. That nobility is something that exists independent of any god's decree.
Brandon Sanderson
#10. A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of God
that does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which
it is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?
Oscar A. Romero
#11. if a philosopher wishes to be useful to human society, he must announce a God.
Voltaire
#12. Jesus revealed a face of God that bothered society profoundly! (Carlos Mesters, p. 122)
Mev Puleo
#13. The pressures of life and influence of society have caused many to become something and someone they are not. Remove the layers. Dig through the dust and debris. Find the genuine jewel - YOU.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#14. It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.
H.L. Mencken
#15. Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
John Ralston Saul
#16. An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and the white, men and women - live happily as children of the same Lord. Thus experiencing the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of God.
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
#17. Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.
Joshua
#18. Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
Thomas Paine
#19. The destiny of your land is in the hands of the church and her willingness to declare the position of God in the society
Sunday Adelaja
#20. I am not fully forgiven until I allow God to write his new dream for my life on the blackboard of my mind.. God has a great plan to redeem society. He needs me and wants to use me.
Robert H. Schuller
#21. Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?
Mark Twain
#22. God has given everything to fulfill our need,
But he has nothing to satisfy our greed.
MIKAIL ALI
#23. Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society.
Rick Santorum
#24. The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness.
Robert Winston
#25. Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote ... that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.
Samuel Adams
#26. Seek to be made holier every day; pray, strive, wrestle for the spirit, to make you like God. Be as much you can with God. I declare to you that I had rather be one hour with God than a thousand with the sweetest society on earth or in Heaven. All other joys are but streams; God is the fountain.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#27. Unfortunately, the case for equal opportunities, long established in
liberal Western society, cuts no ice in the fundamentalist regime if
the five-year old. There is no God but Mummy, and Daddy is her
prophet.
Allison Pearson
#28. We all have sinned so far in our lives and might continue too but still we all love talking about others sins, Elaborating, exaggerating, laughing, commenting, cursing ... And we all enjoy it hahaha
Honeya
#29. The Laws Of Kingdom Of God Must Form The Basis For All Society
Sunday Adelaja
#30. So, my dear fellow, if I don't believe in God, I believe still less in man.
Honore De Balzac
#31. things may be acceptable to our society however, it is not acceptable to God.
Pam Funke
#32. One cannot keep on evangelizing the world without interfering with the world's culture. It devolves upon God's people, therefore, to contend for such a society which will give the maximum opportunity for us to live wholly Christian lives and the maximum opportunity for others to become Christians.
Henry R. Van Til
#33. Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.
Edward Said
#34. Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#35. The church can only defend its own space by fighting, not for space, but for the salvation of the world. Otherwise the church becomes a "religious society" that fights in its own interest and thus has ceased to be the church of God in the world.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#36. Even if they were society's pariahs, they were going to be angels in a marble white heaven and sit on the right hand of Jesus, the Son of God.
Maya Angelou
#37. The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#38. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
Henry David Thoreau
#39. All societies establish laws that become norms. Those norms create the environment that incubates society. So, when you implement the laws of God in society, they produce a culture of heaven.
Myles Munroe
#40. Society is just a structure with no soul. The soul is of the individual. One individual outweighs all societies. And, one individual's revolution outweighs all revolutions in the whole of history, because one man can become the womb for God to be reborn.
Rajneesh
#41. In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke ... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
Sam Kinison
#42. This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.
Ray Comfort
#43. Listen to the Reverend Jerry Falwell, founder of Liberty University: 'AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.'121
Richard Dawkins
#44. The brutal fact is that in this Christian country not one person in a hundred has the faintest notion what the Church teaches about God or man or society or the person of Jesus Christ.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#45. In this moment, I am a god.
Marie Lu
#46. God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families ... When a man and a woman come together and say 'I do,' they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids.
Kirk Cameron
#47. We can only change life in the country and radically reform society by having God's wisdom, strength and authority
Sunday Adelaja
#48. Our country cannot be truly blessed if God does not become the head of the society
Sunday Adelaja
#49. That is the hope that inspires Christians. We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us.
Oscar Romero
#50. This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's sake, speak up. Don't we need to learn respect for people's feelings? What is going to school for? To learn how to add?
Hal Holbrook
#51. Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.
John Bunyan
#52. When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.
Pope Francis
#53. The home is the most ritualized place in a society; each house is like a religious order with its own ceremonies.
Heather O'Neill
#54. He was convinced that, as a duck is so made that it must live in water, so God had made him such that he must spend thirty thousand rubles a year and always occupy a prominent position in society. He
Leo Tolstoy
#55. It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#56. What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
Kathleen Turner
#57. God commands us to love every man, alien or citizen, Samaritan or Jew, as ourselves; and the act neither of society nor of government can render it our duty to violate this command.
H.W. Halleck
#58. The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
John Adams
#59. Leaders do not choose, rather they respond to God choosing them. Thus, the first responsive step of leadership is of utmost importance. It is an act of rebellion against the society of the spectacle - It is to relinquish a life of many options so that you can receive God's one option.
Mark Sayers
#60. But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Victor Hugo
#61. You must learn to listen to and obey God, especially in a society where it's easy and expected to do what is most comfortable.
Francis Chan
#62. Complaining about the weather seems to be a favorite American pastime. Sadly, we Christians often get caught up in this ungodly habit in our society. But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather. We are, in fact, sinning against God.
Jerry Bridges
#63. the worldly church (accommodationist) and the isolated church (exclusivist). "[The worldly church] thinks of itself as responsible to society for God rather than to God for society";226 the isolated church "seeks to respond to God but does so only for itself.
Atsuyoshi Fujiwara
#64. Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.
Eugene H. Peterson
#65. Christians are meant to be God's holy counterculture, showing the world what a society of love can look like. It is about political imagination and what it means to be the peculiar people of God. As
Shane Claiborne
#66. Because ours is such a free and prosperous society, it is easier for Christians to feel secure by presuming on instead of depending on God's grace. To many believers become satisfied with physical blessings and have little desire for spiritual blessings.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#67. We can say that the people closest to God are teachers who devoted themselves to being beneficial to others. For they are the ones who build the human; they are the ones who build the society. the ones to build the present and future, and the ones to put their stamp on the future are teachers.
M. Fethullah Gulen
#68. Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
John Locke
#69. Confrontation is the special business of young people. They confront their parents, peers, society, law enforcement officers, and themselves, but primarily they confront God.
Billy Graham
#70. The fool knows nothing of God; he never comes across anything divine. He remains part of the stupid collectivity. Remember, the society, the collective has no soul; the soul belongs to the individual. Hence, those who belong to the collective are destroying every possibility of being souls.
Rajneesh
#71. The conspiracy theory of society . . . comes from abandoning God and then asking: "Who is in his place?" - Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, London, Routledge,
Umberto Eco
#72. In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.
Mircea Eliade
#73. God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
Maxim Gorky
#74. Man is certainly not creative, but his creativity should not be concerned with God. His creativity should be concerned with making a better world, a better society, better literature, better poetry, better paintings, better sculpture, better human beings.
Rajneesh
#75. Jesus indicated that there will be a permissive society just before He comes back ... the world today is on an immoral binge such as has not been known since the days of Rome. We are in a hedonistic society, and what we are seeing is human nature expressing itself without God.
Billy Graham
#76. The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.
Aga Khan IV
#77. The primary role of the church is to reflect God's value system in society and to train people in that value system. It's not the government's responsibility, nor are they equipped to do that on the most local level where the need exists.
Tony Evans
#78. [The Devil] And after all, who knows whether proof of the devil is also proof of God? I want to join an idealist society and form an opposition within it: 'I'm a realist,' I'll say, 'not a materialist,' heh, heh!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#79. We look around us and we find ourselves confused as to why the world has fallen into such deep darkness. And standing in this descending darkness, what we need to realize is that the farther we move from God, the darker everything gets. And no light of man can illuminate that kind of darkness.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#80. I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.
Henry David Thoreau
#81. Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.
Mike Yaconelli
#82. Marriage is God's invention, not ours! Society didn't establish it; God did.
Billy Graham
#83. I hope you agree with me that the hope for the world is the local church, and that the heart of God's plan is found in creating a whole new society in a local church. If
Scot McKnight
#84. What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#85. Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
Fulton J. Sheen
#86. Oh God, modern life with all its feelings ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
#87. Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.
Frederick M. Vinson
#88. Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#89. Without the sanction of society
Without the sanction of the church
Without the sanction of God
I love you.
Ruth Sims
#90. Why is God described in the masculine gender? Does the predominantly masculine image of God reflect an ancient patriarchal society. Or has God been imagined through Man's mind.
Tarif Naaz
#91. The position that God promised the church is to influence the society. We are to govern the attitude and the conduct and the motivation of the human race.
Roberts Liardon
#92. It's sad that we live in a society that has the refrain 'thank God it's Friday, that means you despise 5/7ths of your life.
Wendell Berry
#93. God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop.
John Mark Reynolds
#94. To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.
Auguste Comte
#95. Today an educated, civilized society is turning its face while thousands of unborn babies are being killed. God Himself, if not history, will judge this greater holocaust.
Billy Graham
#96. It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society
Samuel Shem
#97. It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.
Harold Bloom
#98. I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.
Joseph Goebbels
#100. Miracles may occur now and then, but for the most part ordinary pilgrims do God's work by preaching, caring for widows and orphans, challenging society's wrongs, and marshaling the faithful to show the world a better way to live.
Philip Yancey
