G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“God was always important to me. I always believed. I just never knew Him until I had to know Him. He was my best friend I never hung out with. Then my life took the crazy, tragic, turn and I got on my knees and begged Him to show me Himself so I would know not only Him but myself.”
“God was bored by him.”
“God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.”
“God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.”
“God was dead. Let Him rest in peace. Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.”
Source: Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon Mysteries, Book 1): A gripping crime novel of the Texan wilderness
“God was dreaming, and the world was his dream.”
“God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.”
Source: The Man Born to Be King: A Play-cycle on the Life of Our Loard and Saviour Jesus Christ
“God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.”
“God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.”
“God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.”
Source: Poems New and Collected
“God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.”
Source: Road Novels 1957-1960
“God was good that afternoon, and merciful. His world came in through our eyes and lived in our heads, and our thoughts went wordlessly out across the world, far beyond the horizon they went.
- Out Along the Ij”
Source: Amsterdam Stories
“God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as it is he has set his love upon particular sinners, and this means that, by his own free voluntary choice, he will not know perfect and unmixed happiness again till he has brought every one of them to heaven. He has in effect resolved that henceforth for all eternity his happiness shall be conditional upon ours.”
“God was havin' himself a good day when he made boobs. He must've stepped back from Eve and said, Yes ma'am! Those'll work.”
“God was in Christ, reconciling the world.”
Source: Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West
“God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead.”
“God was in the details.”
“God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.”
“God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
“God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.”
“God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.”
Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
“God was never the problem, he was always the solution.”
Source: Unleash The Power Within
“God was on the move; God is on the move; and God will always be on the move. Those who walk with God and listen to God are also on the move. Reading the Bible so we can live it out today means being on the move—always. Anyone who stops and wants to turn a particular moment into a monument, as the disciples did when Jesus was transfigured before them, will soon be wondering where God has gone.”
“God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and a half-but because the political state and corporate economy considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor. And it is.”
“God was planning a cookout and all of civilization was going to be the barbecue. Already the charcoal was hot, white and flaky outside, as red as demons’ eyes inside. A huge thing, a great thing.
His time of transfiguration was at hand. He was going to be born for the second time, he was going to be squeezed out of the laboring cunt of some great sand-colored beast that even now lay in the throes of its contractions, its legs moving slowly as the birthblood gushed, its sun-hot eyes glaring into the emptiness.
He had been born when times changed, and the times were going to change again.”
“God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.”
Source: The Essential Samuel Butler
“God was seldom discussed in our family except in a very distant sort of way, rather like our cousins in Canada.”
Source: Silent on the Moor
“God was showing off when he made you.”
“God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He rewarding me? Did He actively watch me or take me for granted like a fish you don't notice until it's floating on the surface of the tank?”
Source: Naked
“God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with white hair and a beard like Santa. This seemed strange to me. When I thought of God, I imagined only mist over the pond, a sliver of moon in a dark sky, scatterings of stars, birdsong.”
“God was surely not cruel, not after untold myriads since the Old Testament, and would consider their tenure on a forgotten world as penance enough for any mortal sins. When His finest Creation ceased, they would all be translated to Heaven, believers and doubters alike.”
Source: The Lifecycle of Suns
“God was there. And here. And all the places in between. Couldn’t I trust Him with the horizon as I trusted this ship to carry me . . ? (p. 147).”
Source: Hope Between the Pages
“God was there, but hiding. Deliberately hiding. It was a question of forcing him to come out of his lair, his abstract absolute lair, and compelling him to incarnate himself as a felt experienced quality of personal actions. It was a matter of violently dragging him from outsideness and aboveness to insideness. But God was a joker. Spandrell had conjured him with violence to appear; and out of the bloody steam of the magically compelling sacrifice had emerged only a dust-bin. But the very failure of the incantation had been a proof that God was there, outside. Nothing happens to a man except that which is like himself. Dust-bins to dust-bins, dung to dung. He had not succeeded in compelling God to pass from outsideness to insideness. But the appearance of the dust-bin confirmed the reality of God as a providence, God as a destiny, God as the giver or withholder of grace, God as the ‘redestinating saviour or destroyer. Dust-bins had been his predestined lot. In giving him dust-bins yet again, the providential joker was merely being consistent.”
Source: point counter point
“God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word.”
“God was there with Jesus all along, and he is with you right now no matter how dark your situation may seem.”
Source: Keep Walking: 40 Days to Hope and Freedom After Betrayal
“God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.”
“God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.”
Source: The Attribute to God
“God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.”
Source: Burned
“God wasn't powerful because he was right. He was right because he was powerful.”
“God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely blot out the evil past but in the most literal sense "makes it good."”
“God wastes nothing, so use what He has given you as fuel for your soul's journey.”
Source: Colliding With Destiny: Finding Hope in the Legacy of Ruth
“God watches how faithfully we handle the little things in everyday life. If we can't be faithful in these quiet moments—at home, at work, in our daily steps—how can He trust us with greater things to come?”
“God watches over drunks and third baseman.”
“God we proclaim death to anything or anyone that will lift a hand against this network and ministry that belongs to you God. It is your work, your idea, it is your property, it is your airwaves, it is your world. We proclaim death to anything that would stand in the way of God's great voice of proclamation to the whole world. In the name of Jesus and all the people said Amen!”
“God wears white flannels.”
“God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.”
“God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away.”
“God went out of me
as if the sea dried up like sandpaper,
as if the sun became a latrine.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.”
Source: El Asesino y otros poemas
“God! what a beauty! what a lovely, charming thing!' he exclaimed. 'Haven't they reared it on snails and sour milk, Nelly?...”
Source: Wuthering Heights