Top 100 Was God Quotes
#1. I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.
Donald Miller
#2. Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.
George Leonard
#3. He thought only of one thing
the geometries before him. Here was God speaking in His simple absolute language, according to the same grammar that He had used to start the planets on their smooth and silken dance.
Mark Helprin
#4. The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that ocean of infinite mercy that heaved and panted and longed for an outlet; it was God showing how he could love a poor, guilty sinner.
Octavius Winslow
#5. I was an atheist until I realized I was god. What happens if you get scared to death >twice. National sarcasm society:like we need your support.some girls wear Prada some girls we're glock 17 short recoil spring loaded semiautomatic pistols with a loaded chamber indicator and a nonstop drip.
Darynda Jones
#6. God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.
Billy Graham
#7. Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around
every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.
Little Richard
#8. I have no clue who that old Jim was. God has certainly transformed me into a different Jim.
Jim Hamilton
#9. In the beginning was the Word. It doesn't say in the beginning was God. In the beginning was the Word because in the very beginning of every moment of time and space your word counts. Your whole destiny is written in the Word.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#10. This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God's will for your life.
Coretta Scott King
#11. What was God doing with himself before the creation?
Samuel Beckett
#12. So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
John Dryden
#13. It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.
Philip Zimbardo
#14. Sure I got sins. Ever'body got sins. A sin is somepin you ain't sure about. Them people that's sure about ever'thing an' ain't got no sin
well, with that kind a son-of-a-bitch, if I was God I'd kick their ass right outa heaven! I couldn' stand 'em!
John Steinbeck
#15. The atonement was God's extending favor to people who deserved not favor but wrath. The atonement was God's bridging the awful "Grand Canyon" of sin to reach people who were in rebellion against Him. And He did this at infinite cost to Himself by sending Jesus to die in our place.
Jerry Bridges
#16. The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.
Andrew Sullivan
#17. I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
Lana Del Rey
#19. Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Louisa May Alcott
#20. Much ado there was, God wot;
He woold love, and she woold not,
She sayd, "Never man was trewe;"
He sayes, "None was false to you."
Nicholas Breton
#21. When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.
Marshall Curry
#22. Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
Gary Kemp
#23. God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form ... The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
C.S. Lewis
#24. I can't change it, That was God's plan for my life and I'm going to go with it.
Bethany Hamilton
#25. I asked my grandmother if the light was God," Pam recalled. Rie laughed at the suggestion. "Oh no, Baby," said Rie. "God is not the light. The light is what happens when God breathes." She knew then, Pam would say later, that she was standing in the breath of God.
Judy Bachrach
#26. My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.
Andy Stanley
#27. The monsoon came, six months
of infinite rain. The towns I once knew
were wiped clean,
and everyone said it was God
revising his poem.
Eric Gamalinda
#28. The only authority my mother recognized was God's. God is love and the Bible is truth--everything else was up for debate. She taught me to challenge authority and question the system. The only way it backfired on her was that I constantly challenged and questioned her.
Trevor Noah
#29. They had remained silent during the trial, their leader stating only that the disease was God's vengeance on sinners and the unclean. Lean men with shaven heads and blank, implacable eyes, they were God's gunmen, and would stare, as such, from all the tapes of history, forever. But
William Gibson
#30. We never really own anything during our brief stay on earth. God just loans the earth to us while we're here. It was God's property before you arrived, and God will loan it to someone else after you die. You just get to enjoy it for a while.
Rick Warren
#31. Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God's.
Val McDermid
#32. Her courage knew no bounds. Maybe it was God working through her, but she radiated an inner strength he was certain she'd never acknowledged.
Pepper Winters
#33. I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
C.S. Lewis
#34. When I think of whisper, I think of tenderness, gentleness, beauty. And that was God's voice. The hard part with whispers, though, is we have to be listening for them. They are just loud enough that only the people listening will hear and those who are distracted won't.
Jefferson Bethke
#35. My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.
Chazz Palminteri
#36. The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?
Nicholas Sparks
#37. Jesus being born as a baby was God's way of laughing at a world trying to grow up too quickly.
Steven James
#38. werewolves were members of the old Danish families who owned slaves. Their transformation was God's punishment for their wrongdoings. You could spy their teeth and claws at night, even when they were in their human guise, so they often wore gloves and scarves, even in the hottest times of the year.
Alice Hoffman
#39. How the fuck did somebody come out as trans, anyway? It wasn't about who you flirted with on the dance floor or walked down the aisle with. It was about who you fucking were. It wasn't putting on drag. It was God putting it on you without your consent.
Heidi Cullinan
#42. The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master ... such are His power and His majesty.
J.I. Packer
#43. I have this famous joke that I use: Why was God able to create Heaven and Earth in seven days and seven nights? Because he didn't have installed customers and legacy technology to worry about.
Brad D. Smith
#44. So put your stubbornness to rest,
Yes, open up your eyes.
No big bang has ever happened,
Was God brought us to life.
Kari L. Greenaway
#45. Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.
Billy Graham
#46. The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight ...
Thomas Hobbes
#47. Don't try to create the world in your image-that was God's mistake.
Marty Rubin
#48. The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#49. He said, 'Charlie, how would you treat people if you knew you didn't have to fix them? If you knew that was God's job, and all He was asking of you was show them His love, maybe tell them some things He wanted them to know?
Dan Walsh
#50. If what Jesus said was good, and so much of it was absolutely beautiful, what does it matter if he was God or not?
Kurt Vonnegut
#51. It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance.
Phil Vischer
#52. Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.
George Whitefield
#54. One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth? We have our answer in the fertile soil which spreads over the temperate regions of the globe. The glacier was God's great plough.
Louis Agassiz
#55. God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
Peter Straub
#56. Why did God have to make Mo'Nique a good actress? What was God thinking when he decided to give Mo'Nique acting chops. Now we have to endure Mo'Nique comedy specials.
Andy Kindler
#57. The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.
R.C. Sproul
#58. Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men ... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!
Isadora Duncan
#59. Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.
Jeannette Walls
#60. televangelist Pat Robertson took to the world's airwaves and tried to suggest that the earthquake was God's vengeance for the Haitian Revolution, alleging that the slaves had sold their souls to Satan at Bwa Kayiman in return for the power to overthrow their masters.
Mambo Chita Tann
#61. What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.
Janette Rallison
#62. Why would a god sacrifice her life if she was God? Just show real power and send an army of angels and there'd be no debate.
Peter Tieryas
#63. When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.
Roman Payne
#64. Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.
Robert Byron
#65. When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth of a tiny baby in an obscure village in the Middle East was God's supreme triumph of good over evil.
Charles W. Colson
#66. The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God ... or an artist and a writer.
Vera Nazarian
#67. How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
Anne Hutchinson
#68. I wanted to be Snoopy's girlfriend and when I got older I wanted to be Bart Simpson's girlfriend. Then I couldn't decide whether I wanted marry Snoopy or Michael Jackson - because he was God to me - or to just be them.
Amy Winehouse
#69. Regardless of your religious beliefs, you should never tell a mourning mother that it was "God's plan." For some people, that can be worse than saying nothing at all. For a non-believer, the words that are meant to console a religious person can do quite the opposite.
David G. McAfee
#70. I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.
Terry Pratchett
#71. I stepped back and looked at all the people as they continued to weave in and out, around and around, faster and faster until they were one blur, until they were One. And then I knew what Bubbe meant. Here, was God.
Han Nolan
#72. Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'
Tony Campolo
#73. She took my hand and told me not to grieve; for wherever we were, she said, there was France and there was God.
W. Somerset Maugham
#74. I knew, as soon as I woke up, that the dream had come from God and it was about the reality of Jesus. The truth of Him. The He was a person whose pronouns you had to capitalize. That He was God.
Lauren F. Winner
#75. For it must be recognized that before anyone else it was God himself, the Eternal Father, who entrusted himself to the Virgin of Nazareth, giving her his own Son in the mystery of the Incarnation."87
Michael Gaitley
#77. I know that Lorenzo Snow was God's mouthpiece upon the earth, that he was the representative of the Lord, and that he was, in very deed, a prophet of God.
Heber J. Grant
#78. Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.
Herrick Johnson
#79. My field was God's earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called his own. Labor was the only thing men called their own.
Leo Tolstoy
#80. It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.
Israel Shenker
#81. After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
Josh McDowell
#83. The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
Timothy Keller
#84. It was God's brilliant idea to create man, to create woman, and join them in marriage - this unique union that begins with a look and quickly escalates into shouts of joy, nakedness, uninhibited freedom, and a closeness so magical it's described as becoming one flesh.
Justin Buzzard
#85. But though there were different names for God in all the different
languages in the world and God understood what all the people who
prayed said in their different languages still God remained always the
same God and God's real name was God.
James Joyce
#86. She was god-awfully hideous. I swear she looked like a bad-tempered mutant tomato, and she was making a sound like a cat being fed into a printer
Sarah Rees Brennan
#87. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.
James Nesbitt
#88. We can know that in the beginning there was God and not just some cosmic upheaval that brought light out of darkness only when we have experienced him doing the same thing in our lives, our world
bringing light out of our darkness
Frederick Buechner
#89. Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
George Bernard Shaw
#90. Jesus was God's climax to Israel's story, but he was not bound to that story. He pushed at its boundaries, transformed it, and at times left parts of it behind.
Peter Enns
#91. When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
Peter O'Toole
#92. You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
Fables for Our Time, Moral of "The Owl Who Was God" (1940)
James Thurber
#93. In my opinion, Christ's love for people is in its kind a miracle impossible on earth. True, he was God. But we are not gods.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#94. Like Riley said, I was god now. Stronger,faster, better. Nobody else counted.
Stephenie Meyer
#95. Several millennia ago, the words were written that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. It was not our idea; it was God's idea.
Mike Pence
#96. It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.
Linda Evangelista
#97. There was an audible gasp, like everyone had been sucker-punched, and the sound reverberated through the hall like he'd just announced that not only was god dead, but he'd also been a hermaphroditic drag queen called Miss Demeanor.
Andrea Speed
#98. When I was five, my mother and sister sat me up on the kitchen counter and explained the facts of life: the Easter Bunny didn't exist, Elijah was God's invisible friend, with any luck Nana would die soon and If I ever saw a unicorn, I should kill it or catch it for cash.
Sloane Crosley
#99. I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.
Liev Schreiber
#100. What to do? Fight it or play along? Was God behind it?
Peter J. Tanous
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
