All Quotes By Tag: God

“Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commit acts they would otherwise find repulsive. ‘The devil made me do it.’ I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.”

“Don’t believe in God. Love the world just the way it is. ”

“The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.”

“I don’t try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”

“In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all. ”

“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.”

“My arms are too short to box with God.”

“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.”

“We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.”

“God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.”

“Now we cannot…discover our failure to keep God’s law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, “You must do this. I can’t.”

“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”

“It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”

“Just because you can explain it doesn’t mean it’s not still a miracle.”

“I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me”