Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.
I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.
God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything - yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling.
People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.
Oh, I don't talk about God.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry?
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.
If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.
I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.
How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.
You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.'
