All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

- Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

- C.S. Lewis

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

- C.S. Lewis

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

- Oscar Wilde

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

- C.S. Lewis

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

- Holy Bible: King James Version, Anonymous

God has no religion.

- Mahatma Gandhi

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

- C.S. Lewis

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

- Nicolas Chamfort

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

- Elbert Hubbard

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

- The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

- Kurt Vonnegut

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

- Søren Kierkegaard

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

- Corrie ten Boom

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

- C.S. Lewis

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

- Dorothy Parker

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

- C.S. Lewis

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

- John Henry Newman

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

- Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

- The God I Love, Joni Eareckson Tada

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

- Sylvia Plath

God save us from people who mean well.

- A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

- Erma Bombeck

That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.

- The Stand, Stephen King

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

- Bob Marley

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

- Mahatma Gandhi

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

- T.D. Jakes

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

- Confessions, Augustine of Hippo

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

- Holy Bible: New International Version, Anonymous

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

- Woody Allen

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.

- Anne Lamott

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.

- George Carlin

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

- The Color Purple, Alice Walker

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

- Woody Allen

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

- C.S. Lewis

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

- Will Smith

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

- Notebooks 1951-1959, Albert Camus

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

- C.S. Lewis

But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

- Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God, Francis Chan

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

- Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes, Gordon B. Hinckley

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

- Voltaire

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

- Octavia E. Butler

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

- City of Bones, Cassandra Clare

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!

- Joel Osteen

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

- Angels & Demons, Dan Brown

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

- Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, Galileo Galilei

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

- Criss Jami

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

- Rights of Man, Thomas Paine

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

- Bertrand Russell

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

- Voltaire

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

- C.S. Lewis

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, Robert M. Pirsig

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

- Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith, Rob Bell

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

- Kushiel's Chosen, Jacqueline Carey

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

- John Lennon

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

- A.W. Tozer

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

- The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

- Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, C.S. Lewis

We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.

- Acheron, Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

- Keeping Faith, Jodi Picoult

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

- The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

- God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens

Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.

- Joyce Meyer

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

- Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging, Brennan Manning

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

- Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays, David Hume

Do your best and let God do the rest.

- Ben Carson

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)

- Holy Bible: New International Version, Anonymous

The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed.

- Michael R. Phillips

All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.

- A.J. Russell

There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.

- The Quran / القرآن الكريم, Anonymous

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

- Corrie ten Boom

When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

- Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith, Anne Lamott

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

- William Blake

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

- C.S. Lewis

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

- A.W. Tozer

How can He be perfect? Everything He ever makes...dies.

- George Carlin

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

- G.K. Chesterton

Crap. It's all crap. Living is crap. Life has no meaning. None. Nowhere to be found. Crap. Why doesn't anybody realize this?

- Ballad of a Shinigami, K-Ske Hasegawa

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

- The Road, Cormac McCarthy

My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

- Holy Bible: King James Version, Mary (mother of Jesus)

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I'm going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it.

- Tom Hiddleston

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.

- Ansel Adams

Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.

- Strip Tease, Carl Hiaasen

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

- The End of the Affair, Graham Greene

It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.

- The Queen of Everything, Deb Caletti

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

- Arthur Schopenhauer

I have found God, but he is insufficient.

- Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller

When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.

- Thomas S. Monson

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

- Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

- Martin Luther

Without God all things are permitted.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

- Elisabeth Elliot

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.


- Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91., Dark Jar Tin Zoo