--- title: "32 God Likes Quotes by 30 authors" description: "Browse 32 God Likes quotes by 30 authors. Discover the best God Likes sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a51/desmond-tutu-442_forever_god-is-forever-using-especially-young-pe_1157516.jpg" --- > [God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/god-is-forever-using-especially-young-people-not-oldies-like-us-god/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a51/desmond-tutu-442_forever_god-is-forever-using-especially-young-pe_1157516.jpg) > [The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/the-animals-are-those-things-that-god-likes-but-doesn-t-love/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af5/jonathan-safran-foer-136_animal_the-animals-are-those-things-that-god-li_1938267.png) > [I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-kushner/i-m-not-religious-but-i-like-god-and-he-likes-me/) [Tony Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-kushner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6f/tony-kushner-2204_god_i-m-not-religious-but-i-like-god-and-he_405312.jpg) > [Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-watson/those-prayers-god-likes-best-which-come-seething-hot-from-the-heart/) [Thomas Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-watson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cda/thomas-watson-4209_god_those-prayers-god-likes-best-which-come_2839649.png) > [Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-sacks/why-did-god-create-mankind-because-god-likes-stories/) [Jonathan Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-sacks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f40/jonathan-sacks-2788_likes_why-did-god-create-mankind-because-god-l_1785537.png) > [“God likes to have his free lunch and be it too.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/god-likes-to-have-his-free-lunch-and-be-it-too/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/465/richard-dawkins-115_free-lunch_god-likes-to-have-his-free-lunch-and-be_1283841.jpg) > [Remember God likes us best when we are flying by the seats of our pants,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-bernhard/remember-god-likes-us-best-when-we-are-flying-by-the-seats-of-our/) [Ruth Bernhard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-bernhard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2e/ruth-bernhard-20610_flying_remember-god-likes-us-best-when-we-are-f_2210746.jpg) > [Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/only-the-redeemed-have-the-ability-to-like-what-god-likes-and-to-be/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d8/anonymous-1_ability_only-the-redeemed-have-the-ability-to-li_2374604.jpg) > [We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-snow/we-want-lives-of-simple-predictable-ease-smooth-even-trails-as-far-as/) [Tony Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-snow/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f8/tony-snow-12687_ease_we-want-lives-of-simple-predictable-ease_2431627.jpg) > [Do not attempt to change yourself for others. Be the way you are that is how God likes you to be and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madhu/do-not-attempt-to-change-yourself-for-others-be-the-way-you-are-that/) [Madhu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madhu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff8/madhu-55618_being-real_do-not-attempt-to-change-yourself-for-ot_1448222.jpg) > [Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/do-you-honestly-believe-god-likes-you-not-just-loves-you-because/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f81/brennan-manning-959_believe_do-you-honestly-believe-god-likes-you-no_3046436.png) > [It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-osteen/it-doesn-t-matter-who-likes-you-or-doesn-t-like-you-all-that-matters/) [Joel Osteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-osteen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ae/joel-osteen-194_accepting_it-doesn-t-matter-who-likes-you-or-doesn_388556.jpg) > [“It's true that things happen in life that seem wrong and are painful, but it isn't because God likes to see us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jodi-picoult/it-s-true-that-things-happen-in-life-that-seem-wrong-and-are-painful/) [Jodi Picoult](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jodi-picoult/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08d/jodi-picoult-45_life_it-s-true-that-things-happen-in-life-tha_309766.jpg) > [Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-francis-de-sales/let-us-be-what-god-likes-so-long-as-we-are-his-and-let-us-not-be-what/) [Saint Francis de Sales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-francis-de-sales/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/254/saint-francis-de-sales-2108_god_let-us-be-what-god-likes-so-long-as-we-a_2824376.png) > [God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-sunday/god-likes-a-little-humor-as-is-evidence-by-the-fact-that-he-made-the/) [Billy Sunday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-sunday/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3c/billy-sunday-4239_evidence_god-likes-a-little-humor-as-is-evidence_2205740.png) > [I grew up where we were told you couldn't do anything. 'By the way, if you think you're special, you're not,' my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robby-hoffman/i-grew-up-where-we-were-told-you-couldn-t-do-anything-by-the-way-if/) [Robby Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robby-hoffman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/007/robby-hoffman-9673_god_i-grew-up-where-we-were-told-you-couldn_1335903.jpg) > [“My dear sir,” said the sheikh. “God likes catching His servants unprepared. The boy has set down what is obviously the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-willow-wilson/my-dear-sir-said-the-sheikh-god-likes-catching-his-servants/) [G. Willow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-willow-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ef/g-willow-wilson-9668_god_my-dear-sir-said-the-sheikh-god-likes-ca_1384474.jpg) > [God likes His people to believe that there is nothing too hard for Him...We are all the time limiting God's power by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dwight-l-moody/god-likes-his-people-to-believe-that-there-is-nothing-too-hard-for/) [Dwight L. Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dwight-l-moody/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30a/dwight-l-moody-1085_believe_god-likes-his-people-to-believe-that-the_1817963.jpg) > [“God likes to make people. Great people out of common people, strong people out of week people, famous people out of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-baker/god-likes-to-make-people-great-people-out-of-common-people-strong/) [Don Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-baker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea1/don-baker-233227_bad-people_god-likes-to-make-people-great-people-ou_342479.jpg) > [... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-halsey/organized-religion-in-a-dominating-business-society-can-do-only-one/) [Margaret Halsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-halsey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eef/margaret-halsey-6554_apologetic_organized-religion-in-a-dominating-busin_3028022.jpg) > [“God loves you, that He plans for your good, not your hurt. “It’s true that things happen in life that seem wrong…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janette-oke/god-loves-you-that-he-plans-for-your-good-not-your-hurt-it-s-true/) [Janette Oke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janette-oke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/361/janette-oke-10479_god-love_god-loves-you-that-he-plans-for-your-goo_304577.jpg) > [It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryce-courtenay/it-is-better-just-to-get-on-with-the-business-of-living-and-minding/) [Bryce Courtenay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryce-courtenay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/bryce-courtenay-7125_begging_it-is-better-just-to-get-on-with-the-bus_2143543.jpg) > [“You telling me God love you, and you ain't never done nothing for him? I mean, not go to church, sing in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/you-telling-me-god-love-you-and-you-ain-t-never-done-nothing-for-him/) [Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e63/alice-walker-347_church_you-telling-me-god-love-you-and-you-ain_2642372.jpg) > [Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-yancey/why-pray-evidently-god-likes-to-be-asked-god-certainly-does-not-need/) [Philip Yancey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-yancey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a80/philip-yancey-840_apostles_why-pray-evidently-god-likes-to-be-asked_1401930.jpg) > [Some days, I can be strong, I can be weak,I can be proud, I can be meek, I can be gentle, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/some-days-i-can-be-strong-i-can-be-weak-i-can-be-proud-i-can-be-meek/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a32/anonymous-1_bad-thing_some-days-i-can-be-strong-i-can-be-weak_2194008.jpg) > [“I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-joybell-c/i-feel-like-god-expects-me-to-be-human-i-feel-like-god-likes-me-just/) [C. JoyBell C](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-joybell-c/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6dd/c-joybell-c-471_being-human_i-feel-like-god-expects-me-to-be-human-i_3232456.jpg) > [“In a moment of naked honesty, ask yourself, 'Do I wholeheartedly trust that God likes me'... in this moment, right now, right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/in-a-moment-of-naked-honesty-ask-yourself-do-i-wholeheartedly-trust/) [Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/425/brennan-manning-959_ask-yourself_in-a-moment-of-naked-honesty-ask-yoursel_2992316.jpg) > [I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/i-know-some-very-great-writers-writers-you-love-who-write-beautifully/) [Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3f/anne-lamott-188_assuming_i-know-some-very-great-writers-writers-y_2784629.jpg) > [“What If God Is a Creep? What if God is a creep who wishes He was taller who didn't get the girl…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-boutilier/what-if-god-is-a-creep-what-if-god-is-a-creep-who-wishes-he-was/) [Nancy Boutilier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-boutilier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/nancy-boutilier-33410_children_what-if-god-is-a-creep-what-if-god-is-a_1714288.jpg) > [“Not long after I'd first met Doc, we were sitting on our rock on the hill behind the rose garden and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-courtenay/not-long-after-i-d-first-met-doc-we-were-sitting-on-our-rock-on-the/) [Bruce Courtenay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-courtenay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46c/bruce-courtenay-129328_every-morning_not-long-after-i-d-first-met-doc-we-were_201367.jpg) > [God likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-of-auxerre/god-likes-to-listen-favorably-to-the-prayers-of-his-faithful/) [William of Auxerre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-of-auxerre/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/william-of-auxerre-90579_body_god-likes-to-listen-favorably-to-the-pra_521989.jpg) > [I have no better way of knowing if a man is for God than if he likes to say the Hail Mary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-de-montfort/i-have-no-better-way-of-knowing-if-a-man-is-for-god-than-if-he-likes/) [Louis de Montfort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-de-montfort/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60f/louis-de-montfort-22428_better-way_i-have-no-better-way-of-knowing-if-a-man_951139.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/god-likes/#itemlist", "name": "God Likes Quotes", "numberOfItems": 32, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": 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They come to church to share God, not find God.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alice Walker" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/you-telling-me-god-love-you-and-you-ain-t-never-done-nothing-for-him/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e63/alice-walker-347_church_you-telling-me-god-love-you-and-you-ain_2642372.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e63/alice-walker-347_church_you-telling-me-god-love-you-and-you-ain_2642372.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e63/alice-walker-347_church_you-telling-me-god-love-you-and-you-ain_2642372.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You telling me God love you, and you ain't never done nothing for him? I mean, not go to church, sing in the…” — Alice Walker", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 24, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers (\"your Father knows what you need before you ask him\"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Yancey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-yancey/why-pray-evidently-god-likes-to-be-asked-god-certainly-does-not-need/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a80/philip-yancey-840_apostles_why-pray-evidently-god-likes-to-be-asked_1401930.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a80/philip-yancey-840_apostles_why-pray-evidently-god-likes-to-be-asked_1401930.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a80/philip-yancey-840_apostles_why-pray-evidently-god-likes-to-be-asked_1401930.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor…” — Philip Yancey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 25, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Some days, I can be strong, I can be weak,I can be proud, I can be meek, I can be gentle, I can be tough, I can explode when I've had enough, sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry, sometimes I lose but I will always try, I always get up when I get knocked down, and try to make a smile out of any frown, I hope that God likes me the day that we met, if only for a chance to sit at his feet, and be at his side year after year, while all the bad things just disappear, so when life gets tough and it's hard to be strong I'll always remember, Heaven is where I belong.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/some-days-i-can-be-strong-i-can-be-weak-i-can-be-proud-i-can-be-meek/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a32/anonymous-1_bad-thing_some-days-i-can-be-strong-i-can-be-weak_2194008.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a32/anonymous-1_bad-thing_some-days-i-can-be-strong-i-can-be-weak_2194008.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a32/anonymous-1_bad-thing_some-days-i-can-be-strong-i-can-be-weak_2194008.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Some days, I can be strong, I can be weak,I can be proud, I can be meek, I can be gentle, I can be tough, I…” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 26, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and empty and bruised. I feel like, God doesn't look at me and wish that I were something else, because He likes me just this way. I feel like, God doesn't want me to close my eyes and pray for Him to make me holy or for Him to make me pure; because He made me human. I feel like, God already knows I'm human...it is I who needs to learn that.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "C. JoyBell C" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-joybell-c/i-feel-like-god-expects-me-to-be-human-i-feel-like-god-likes-me-just/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6dd/c-joybell-c-471_being-human_i-feel-like-god-expects-me-to-be-human-i_3232456.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6dd/c-joybell-c-471_being-human_i-feel-like-god-expects-me-to-be-human-i_3232456.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6dd/c-joybell-c-471_being-human_i-feel-like-god-expects-me-to-be-human-i_3232456.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and empty and…” — C. JoyBell C", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 27, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In a moment of naked honesty, ask yourself, 'Do I wholeheartedly trust that God likes me'... in this moment, right now, right here, with all my faults and weaknesses?' If you answer without hesitation, 'Oh yes, God does like me; in fact, He's very fond of me.' you're living in the wisdom of accepted tenderness.\" re: A.W. Tozer's statement \"What comes into our minds when we think about God, is the most important thing about us.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brennan Manning" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/in-a-moment-of-naked-honesty-ask-yourself-do-i-wholeheartedly-trust/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/425/brennan-manning-959_ask-yourself_in-a-moment-of-naked-honesty-ask-yoursel_2992316.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/425/brennan-manning-959_ask-yourself_in-a-moment-of-naked-honesty-ask-yoursel_2992316.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/425/brennan-manning-959_ask-yourself_in-a-moment-of-naked-honesty-ask-yoursel_2992316.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In a moment of naked honesty, ask yourself, 'Do I wholeheartedly trust that God likes me'... in this moment…” — Brennan Manning", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 28, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said that you can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.)", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anne Lamott" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/i-know-some-very-great-writers-writers-you-love-who-write-beautifully/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3f/anne-lamott-188_assuming_i-know-some-very-great-writers-writers-y_2784629.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3f/anne-lamott-188_assuming_i-know-some-very-great-writers-writers-y_2784629.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3f/anne-lamott-188_assuming_i-know-some-very-great-writers-writers-y_2784629.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money…” — Anne Lamott", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 29, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“What If God Is a Creep? What if God is a creep who wishes He was taller who didn't get the girl who picks on people not His own size? What if God laughed when Jesus had second thoughts? What if His sense of order is no more complex than kids playing King of the Hill or Smear the Queer? What if God is really a creep who beats His wife embezzles when He can and jerks off to violent porn? Perhaps God put Darin on earth to help us understand that the very traits of man which survive the longest and determine the fittest are God's own favorite attributes? Maybe He's a boss who expects favors a professor who makes others feel stupid a witness obstructing justice. What if God is really just a creep? Maybe Machiavelli was His inspired son and The Prince remains our most sacred text. What if Hitler sits at God's right hand tended by a heavenly host of bigots, bullies, soldiers and other serial killers who look to an angel name Manson for advice. A God capable of biological brilliance and genetic genius is no more likely to care about justice and kindness than His creations are. Why assume that God likes women any more than men do? Why imagine He wouldn't hurt His children? God's morality might be just as steeped in struggle as accented by abuse as spiced with exploitation and as baked with brutality as our own common recipes. Drink up. One taste and you are in Heaven. If God really is a creep that certainly would explain a lot.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nancy Boutilier" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-boutilier/what-if-god-is-a-creep-what-if-god-is-a-creep-who-wishes-he-was/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/nancy-boutilier-33410_children_what-if-god-is-a-creep-what-if-god-is-a_1714288.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/nancy-boutilier-33410_children_what-if-god-is-a-creep-what-if-god-is-a_1714288.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/nancy-boutilier-33410_children_what-if-god-is-a-creep-what-if-god-is-a_1714288.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What If God Is a Creep? What if God is a creep who wishes He was taller who didn't get the girl who picks on…” — Nancy Boutilier", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 30, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Not long after I'd first met Doc, we were sitting on our rock on the hill behind the rose garden and I had asked him why I was a sinner and what I had done to be condemned to eternal hell fire unless I was born again. He sat for a long time looking over the valley, and then he said, :Peekay, God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with such rubbish. Only man ants always God should be there to condemn this on and save that one. Always it is man who wants to make heaven and hell. God is too busy training the bees to make honey and every morning opening up all the new flowers for business.\"He paused and smiled \"In Mexico there is a cactus that even sometimes you would think God forgets. But no, my friend, this is not so. On a full moon in the desert every one hundred years he remembers and he opens up a single flower to bloom. And if you should be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven.: He looked at me, his deep blue eyes sharp and penetrating. \"This is the faith in God the cactus has\". We had sat for a while before he spoke again. \"it is better just to get on with the business living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day. Absoloodle.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bruce Courtenay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-courtenay/not-long-after-i-d-first-met-doc-we-were-sitting-on-our-rock-on-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46c/bruce-courtenay-129328_every-morning_not-long-after-i-d-first-met-doc-we-were_201367.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46c/bruce-courtenay-129328_every-morning_not-long-after-i-d-first-met-doc-we-were_201367.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46c/bruce-courtenay-129328_every-morning_not-long-after-i-d-first-met-doc-we-were_201367.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Not long after I'd first met Doc, we were sitting on our rock on the hill behind the rose garden and I had…” — Bruce Courtenay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 31, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "God likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William of Auxerre" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-of-auxerre/god-likes-to-listen-favorably-to-the-prayers-of-his-faithful/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/william-of-auxerre-90579_body_god-likes-to-listen-favorably-to-the-pra_521989.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/william-of-auxerre-90579_body_god-likes-to-listen-favorably-to-the-pra_521989.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/william-of-auxerre-90579_body_god-likes-to-listen-favorably-to-the-pra_521989.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“God likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body” — William of Auxerre", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 32, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have no better way of knowing if a man is for God than if he likes to say the Hail Mary and the Rosary.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Louis de Montfort" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-de-montfort/i-have-no-better-way-of-knowing-if-a-man-is-for-god-than-if-he-likes/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60f/louis-de-montfort-22428_better-way_i-have-no-better-way-of-knowing-if-a-man_951139.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60f/louis-de-montfort-22428_better-way_i-have-no-better-way-of-knowing-if-a-man_951139.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60f/louis-de-montfort-22428_better-way_i-have-no-better-way-of-knowing-if-a-man_951139.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I have no better way of knowing if a man is for God than if he likes to say the Hail Mary and the Rosary.” — Louis de Montfort", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/god-likes/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/god-likes/", "name": "God Likes Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/god-likes/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a51/desmond-tutu-442_forever_god-is-forever-using-especially-young-pe_1157516.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 32 God Likes quotes by 30 authors. 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