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God Quotes by William Barclay
- The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist…
- God himself took this human flesh upon him.
- When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may…
- We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade…
- When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father; the…
- The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
- We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.
- If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion is his attitude…
- Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
- Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.
- Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be…
- It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at…
- The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.
- Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
- Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which he is not…
- Christianity does not think of man finally submitting to the power of God, it thinks of Him as finally surrendering to the love of God.…
- The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi