I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life. Charles Spurgeon on god
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what. Charles Stanley on god
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. Thomas Carlyle on god
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. George Eliot on god
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. Sigmund Freud on god
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. Blaise Pascal on god
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Alan Watts on god
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. Meister Eckhart on god
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. Walt Whitman on god
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. Blaise Pascal on god
God has entrusted me with myself. Epictetus on god
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. Thomas Carlyle on god
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. Edmund Burke on god
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. Vincent Van Gogh on god
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. Mary Manin Morrissey on god
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. Thomas Merton on god
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. Farrah Fawcett on god
God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones. Dwight L. Moody on god
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. Michelangelo on god