Vastness Of God Quotes

#1. When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.

Greg Boyle

#2. A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

Henry Miller

#3. There is a vastness between what I am and what I ought to be, but it is a vastness able to be spanned by the mercy and grace of him whose face it is most needful for me to behold. In beholding God we become like him. So

Jen Wilkin

#4. I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, all lips. Some are pink and firmly round: a ring, a tender guardrail from the whole world. And then there are these ones: a second ago they weren't here, and just now - like a knife-slit - they are here, still dripping sweet blood.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#5. The God, who is greater than God, has only one thing on Her mind, and that is to drop, endlessly, rose petals on our heads. Behold the One who can't take His eyes off of you. Marinate in the vastness of that.

Gregory J. Boyle

#6. You've saved my life all the same- even if I had something to do with it.

Michael Ende

#7. Creation is the vocal chords of God speaking each day through the colors of the sunrise, the vastness of the night sky,the teeming of life in the ocean, the majesty of the mountains.

Eric Samuel Timm

#8. I believe that people who are devoutly religious, within any specific religion, have no true respect for the ultimate vastness that is God.

Clair Huffaker

#9. I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand."
Mary Lasswell

Mary Lasswell

#10. No human mind can fully grasp the gift of Christ's atonement, the vastness and inclusiveness of the act - but in the end, it comes down to just you and Jesus. You've come, and He's met you with open arms - and now it's just between the two of you.

Toni Sorenson

#11. First, come to the point where you realize you are alone, completely and utterly alone in the vastness of the universe and all of time.
Then realize you are not alone. Look back on your life and see the people who stood by you. There were some. Realize the God of your understanding cares.

Christopher Hawke

#12. There is something to be said about the vastness of the earth, as well as the vastness of the heavens, in reminding us how small we are and how great God's creation is.

Aleksandra Layland

#13. When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone.

Phil Thompson

#15. God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

Pearl S. Buck

#16. ....in Bosnia, mass rape was a policy of the war, systematically carried out, implicating neighbors, paramilitaries, soldiers.

Ausma Zehanat Khan

#17. If God qualifies you, no one can 'unqualify' you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. You're making my heart do things it's never done before."

Jaycee Ford

#19. Create your future from your future not your past.

Werner Erhard

#20. Humans do have authority over creation - but it is a delegated authority to care for animals as God would and not to destroy them. All life still belongs to the Creator of life, as it did the in the beginning.

Richard A. Young

#21. If he lived through this night, he'd look back on this moment and recall seeing the universe in all its majesty and recognizing he was only a powerless man staring into the vastness of an all-powerful God.

Cindy Woodsmall

#22. She had a fleeting sense of his God out there somewhere, like the sea itself, invisible and dangerous, a vastness wrapped in darkness, just a long fall away.

Tim Farrington

#23. When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

Clint Eastwood

#24. Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder. We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation, and the beauty of our Christian faith.

Pope Benedict XVI

#25. Despite our perennial bad behavior, our moral progress seems to me unmistakable.

Sam Harris