Top 100 Quotes About About God
#1. Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.
Beth Moore
#2. We sing about God because we believe in Him. We are not trying to offend anybody, but the evidence that we have seen of Him in our small little lives trumps your opinion about whether or not He exists.
Jeff Foxworthy
#3. If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.
Jaggi Vasudev
#4. What is it about God's Word that creates an hunger to hear more? And not just to hear the Word but to long for it, study it, memorize it, and follow it? What causes followers of Christ around the world literally to risk their lives in order to know it?
David Platt
#5. He said his prayers just in case his parents had been wrong about God all those years.
Sherman Alexie
#6. Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.
Andrew Greeley
#7. We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
Simone Weil
#8. According to one definition, doctrine is teaching from God about God that directs us to the glory of God.
Anonymous
#9. The more I learn about God, the more aware I become of what I don't know about him.
R.C. Sproul
#10. I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!
George MacDonald
#11. Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.
Leo Tolstoy
#12. Study the Bible to know about God. Obey the Bible to really know God.
Adrian Rogers
#13. Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.
Swami Vivekananda
#14. I remembered a scripture they read us from the Bible about God not putting more on us than we could bear. I was beginning to wonder if that was just for those people who went to church every Sunday and prayed before they went to bed at night. Because he wasn't holding back any punches with me.
Abbi Glines
#15. Superheroes are make-believe."
"Oh yeah?" Lula said. "What about God?"
"Hmmmm.
Janet Evanovich
#16. Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.
William Henry Willimon
#17. I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#18. I guess the best part of music is that there's not much unknown. Especially in country, because it's always someone leaving or dying or drinking or fighting or loving the United States or talking about God, and the music's simple mostly.
Brian Allen Carr
#19. To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.
Hilda Phoebe Hudson
#20. And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? "You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off ... " (50)
Julia Cameron
#21. Why is it that so few "pretty people" without checkered pasts are used mightily in the Scriptures? Because the Bible is primarily about God's grace, not about human cleanliness.
Matt Chandler
#22. Remember, we are all part of a great story that is really about God, not us. He is the number one character (read: winner), and we are all secondary (read: losers).
Daniel Hochhalter
#23. Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.
Erwin McManus
#24. It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!
Francis Chan
#25. Addie and Louis sat down in front. She had arranged the funeral and told the minister about Ruth. He hadn't known her at all. She had stopped going to any church because of her feeling about orthodoxy and the childish ways in which churches talked and thought about God.
Kent Haruf
#26. The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#27. Whenever your foundational beliefs about the goodness and justice of God are examined, and the answers produced are not what you yourself have believed about God, there will be an emotional reaction.
Thomas F. Booher
#28. The one thing we truly don't understand about God, about Life, and about Humanity is that we are ONE!
Timothy Pina
#29. What we believe about God determines the quality of our marriage.
Dave Harvey
#30. I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.
Patti Smith
#31. Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.
Emmet Fox
#32. You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.
Joanne Harris
#33. There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.
Jose Saramago
#34. Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.
J.I. Packer
#35. While those around you are filling their minds with the bad news about man in their daily papers, steep yourself in the good news about God in His precious Word!
Billy Graham
#36. Many people have grown up attending church and hearing about God all their lives, but they do not have a personal, dynamic, growing relationship with God.
Henry T. Blackaby
#37. Language falters in the abyss; it fractures at the site of trauma. We need to find a different way of speaking from the depths, reclaiming the notion that language about God is always fractured language, always broken, and never complete.
Shelly Rambo
#38. We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.
George MacDonald
#39. I know many of you would say "What about the Bible?" The Bible says this, the Bible says that, the Bible is the inspired Word of God. I think the Bible is the inspired word of man - about God, and some of that is now expired.
Carlton Pearson
#40. Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.
Herbert McCabe
#41. As the twentieth century was about politics, which is to say survival, the twenty-first is about God, which is to say oblivion, a subject his country is profoundly unprepared to contemplate.
Steve Erickson
#42. I'm Sorry,' he says. It's simple and direct, with none of the nonsense about God calling home an angel too young and who are we to question his mysterious ways.
Libba Bray
#43. You don't know anything about God. You don't even know anything about the movies.
Emily M. Danforth
#44. There are many religions in the world, and they have developed because various people have had various ideas about God. Christianity makes a unique claim ... we can know God because He came to us in human form in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#45. The real goal of Christianity is not to create a religion about God, but that we would actually know Him, experiencing firsthand the wonders and power of His incomparable life.
Francis Frangipane
#46. Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.
Marilyn Monroe
#47. Really, theology is simply what we think about God and then living that truth out in our right-now life.
Sarah Bessey
#48. Faith does not reveal the truth about God; faith just keeps you in the dark.
C.J. Anderson
#49. There are things about God that are mysterious and secret, things we will never know about Him. But there also are things revealed, and those belong to us (Deut. 29:29).
Francis Chan
#50. How you live your life is a testimony of what you believe about God.
Henry Blackaby
#51. I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
Anne Lamott
#52. I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
James Taylor
#53. It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.
August Strindberg
#54. When they brag about god, I just hear jingling gold coins.
Toba Beta
#55. We cannot tame the Lion of Judah. There is a mystery, a wonder, and, yes, even a wildness about God we cannot take from Him.
Beth Moore
#56. Many people have talked to me about God in the middle of difficulties, and after listening to them, I have been struck that, if I believed in the "God" they described, I wouldn't run to him for help either, and I'd be in a panic
Paul David Tripp
#57. When you think about a problem over and over in your mind, that's called worry. When you think about God's Word over and over in your mind, that's meditation. If you know how to worry, you already know how to meditate!
Rick Warren
#58. Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.
Billy Ray Cyrus
#59. We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so.
Richard Aldington
#60. Who that prohibits two people who have different views about God to love each other?
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#61. I would argue that healthy doubt (questioning one's beliefs) is perhaps the best defense against unhealthy doubt (questioning God). When we know how to make a distinction between our ideas about God and God himself, our faith remains safe when one of those ideas is seriously challenged.
Rachel Held Evans
#62. You don't know for certain about God until you're dead.
James Clavell
#63. The mechanic says, If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?
Chuck Palahniuk
#64. God does not have some limited supply of power, requiring that we carefully select a few choice things to pray about. God's power is infinite. God's grace and mercy are drawn deeply from the bottomless well of His heart.
Beth Moore
#65. Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them.
Leonard Ravenhill
#66. Men have no excuse for not knowing about God because He has revealed Himself in man's conscience and in the physical world (Rom. 1:19, 20; 2:15).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#67. Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.
Mystikal
#68. God is another way of talking about the power to break things, that's all. When you mean to break a goblet or a bone, well, just do it and be done. But when the things to be broken get big enough you have to start talking about God.
Catherynne M Valente
#69. I think that 'Little Angels' provides the gateway into that conversation about faith and about the Lord and about God's love for us. Remembering that the angels are just the messengers and the message is the message of love.
Roma Downey
#70. Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
Simon Raven
#71. It's much less demanding to think about God's will for your future than it is to ask Him what He wants you to do in the next ten minutes.
Francis Chan
#72. Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.
Billy Graham
#73. One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.
Ray Lewis
#74. A blind person could make a lifelong study of the eye, properties of light, the sight process and become a great expert in the field, but in another sense he would know nothing about sight. A person could know a great deal about God and yet not know God.
Stephen Covey
#76. It is time, and long past time, to reread the gospels as what we can only call political theology - not because they are not after all about God and spirituality and new birth and holiness and all the rest, but precisely because they are.
N. T. Wright
#77. Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.
A.W. Tozer
#78. Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.
Pope Benedict XVI
#79. People who are obsessed with Jesus aren't consumed with their personal safety and comfort above all else. Obsessed people care more about God's kingdom coming to this earth than their own lives being shielded from pain or distress.
Francis Chan
#80. All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.
George MacDonald
#81. Your question to me is about God, but boiled down to its essentials, it's not so different than most of the questions people ask me to answer. It says: This failed me and I want to do better next time. My answer will not be so different either: To do better you're going to have to try.
Cheryl Strayed
#82. So, we think about God far to easily and that's because of a lot of social, intellectual, and scientific changes that have taken place in the western world and that has made God very problematic for a lot of people.
Karen Armstrong
#83. You can never really know the truth. Not about life, not about God, not about what's in another person's heart, or even your own. All you can ever really know is what it feels like. What it feels like to laugh and cry and hate and hurt and hope and fear and love; what it feels like to live.
James Ryan Daley
#84. Old Blotnik had been mumbling so steadily for so many years, Ozzie suspected he had memorized the prayers and forgotten all about God. It
Philip Roth
#85. The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
John Barth
#86. People, especially the young, wanted to hear about God and not man.
Billy Graham
#87. When my son was murdered, people asked me how I felt about God and what had happened to my son. I said, 'No, you can't go there. You have to understand that there is a devil, and he works 24/7. Whoever murdered our son was with the devil.'
Bill Cosby
#88. Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.
Bruce Lipton
#89. Do we desire such knowledge of God? Then two things follow. First, we must recognize how much we lack knowledge of God. We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts.
J.I. Packer
#91. What we believe about God is the most important truth we believe, and it's the one truth that does the most to shape us. God is the Sun too bright for us to see. Jesus is the Prism who makes the colors beautiful and comprehensible.
Michael Spencer
#92. Criticizing a person's ideas about God and the afterlife is thought to be impolitic in a way that criticizing his ideas about physics or history is not.
Sam Harris
#93. To me music is music. A person of faith, a person that calls themselves a Christian, they are the Christian and they make music. Some music has more to do about God than other music, but in reality what makes the difference between "secular" and "Christian" music is simply a marketing channel.
Michael Gungor
#94. Show me someone who cares about God's people, and I will show you someone who loves God. Show me someone who says they deeply love God but has little concern for his people, and I will show you someone spiritually delusional.
Jim Cymbala
#95. I don't know anything about god except that it's not me. So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being competitive and having ambition and loving my job and observing and reflecting my society, that's where I find the purpose. Because man needs purpose.
Tom Hardy
#96. Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it's wrong to feel that way about God and I know its's wrong to not feel anything. I hate it. I don't hate God. I hate not loving Him.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#97. Whatever we say about God always rests within the larger reality of what we can't say; meaning always resides within a larger mystery; knowing always takes place within unknowing; whatever has been revealed to us surrounded by that which hasn't been revealed to us.
Rob Bell
#98. I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
Samuel Barnett
#99. Rabbinic literature, though it includes plenty of material from before AD 135, tends to see everything in the light, not of a continuing story about God and Israel within the ongoing flow of world history, but of the much thinner, often dehistoricized world of Torah-piety.
N. T. Wright
#100. Here is the rule: the way you live reveals what you really think about God,
Edward T. Welch
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