Then Why Call Him God Quotes

#1. Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Epicurus

#2. But the trouble is that what we call "asking God's forgiveness" very often really consists in asking God to accept our excuses.

C.S. Lewis

#3. There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

Max Muller

#4. God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.

Paul David Washer

#5. Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God "God": "Because when you see something so great, you just go, 'God!

Anne Lamott

#7. If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?

Rick Riordan

#8. Oh God, Oh God! that it were possible
To undo things done; to call back yesterday!
That time could turn up her swift and sandy glass,
To untell days, and to redeem these hours.

Thomas Heywood

#9. ...'at that time men began to call on the name of the Lord' (Genesis 4:26b) ... Seth and his line feared God and called on his name. Lamech, Cain's descendant, called only on his wives to hear his boasting (Genesis 4:23).

Samuel Ngewa

#10. Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for president.

George W. Bush

#12. For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion ... even God."
"It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor."
"Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.

Pam Houston

#13. All who call on God in true faith ... will certainly be heard.

Martin Luther

#14. Most of all, I believe God has chosen to bless this series. In doing so, he's giving the country and maybe the world, one last, big wake-up call before the events transpire.

Tim LaHaye

#15. It seems harsh to many to think that God chooses some and rejects others, and does not consider men's worth, that by his own free will he chooses whom he pleases and moreover rejects others. But what is this scruple except a desire to call God to order and subject him to their judgment?

John Calvin

#16. If there is but one God, then why must blood be shed to prove whose God he is? Does the Father not belong to all of us as we belong to him? Do you think he'll call me a righteous man when I've killed one of his sons?

P.A. Minyard