Inspirational Quotes on God

“We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is.”

“I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.”

“When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our Creator.”

“But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.”

“For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.”

“Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.”

“Human fellowship can go to great lengths, but not all the way. Fellowship with God can go to all lengths.”

“We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.”

“If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.”

“Someone who knows God has evidence--and therefore prejudices based on that evidence--which someone who does not know God does not have.”

“We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life - by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.”

“Everyone has an image of God distorted in some way--we must, of course, since God transcends our capacities to imagine him.”

“Without God man has no reference point to define himself.”

“If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.”

“God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes.”

“There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.”

“You may know God, but not comprehend Him.”

“God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.”

“There are soft moments even to desperadoes. God does not, all at once, abandon even them.”

“None but God can satisfy the longings of the immortal soul; as the heart was made for him, he only can fill it.”