All Quotes By Tag: God

“Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.”

“إن بيننا وبين الله رابطة لا تنفصم، فإذا نحن أخضعنا أنفسنا لإشرافه – سبحانه وتعالى – تحققت أمنياتنا وآمالنا كلها.”

“So tonight to shush you how about if I say I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I’ll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about. I’m pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I’m not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo.”

“I bet you’ve seen the fundamentalist bumper sticker that says, “God said it! I believe it! That settles it!” It must be a typo because what the driver really means is, “I said it! God believes it! That settles it!”

“I mean, think about [the phrase ‘love the sinner, hate the sin.’] Isn’t it like saying, ‘I love left-handed people but hate that they’re left-handed.’ Is that really love? Or is that saying, ‘I’m willing to love you as I’d like you to be, not as you are’? Either God’s love is unconditional or it’s not.”

“These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.”

“They should know that just because things get difficult, it’s no reason to believe God is on vacation.”

“Yevgeny Yevtushenko: ‘You atheist?'”Kingsley Amis: ‘Well, yes, but it’s more that I hate him.”

“From today onwards, I am going to strive for the greatest purity of soul, that the rays of God’s grace may be reflected in all their brilliance.”

“You can’t just know about God. You have to KNOW God!”

“القرآن الكريم ليس إعجازًا في البلاغة فقط ، ولكنه يحوي إعجازًا في كل ما يمكن للعقل البشري أن يحوم حوله ، فكل مفكر متدبر في كلام اللَّه يجد إعجازًا في القرآن الكريم . فالذي درس البلاغة رأى الإعجاز البلاغي ، والذي تعلم الطب وجد إعجازًا طبيًا في القرآن الكريم . وعالم النباتات رأى إعجازًا في آيات القرآن الكريم ، وكذلك عالم الفلك .”

“You are not on a journey to God; you are on a journey WITH God.”

“Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God’s transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial, riskier, rawer, more real, more love-driven life God intended for me all along. That transformation is what awaits all who dare to enter the story of God. As Paul wrote, ‘Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think’ (Romans 12:2)”

“<…> God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly. <...>”

“He is always doing something–the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.”