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God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it-but God is building this thing.
- Willie Aames

There is no other help or hope for human weakness but God's love and patience.
- Louisa May Alcott

But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.
- Cassandra Clare

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
- William Ames

You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.
- Sparky Anderson

It was just a hug, but gods, it meant so much. It meant everything.
- Jennifer L Armentrout

It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.
- David Copperfield

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
- John Barth

The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.
- Lewis J Bates

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
- Desmond Tutu

Look to your heart
that flutters in and out like a moth.
God is not indifferent to your need.
You have a thousand prayers
but God has one.
- Anne Sexton

They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him. -- David Benioff; City of Thieves
- David Benioff

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
- John Stuart Blackie

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
- Thomas More

Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret must be known:
Word I was in the house alone
Somehow must have gotten abroad,
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God.
- Robert Frost

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
- Lord Byron

That is disgusting, and I will never kiss you again." "Yes, you will," he said, and proved by pressing his lips to hers. She wanted to squirm away, just to prove the point but God, she loved kissing him.
- Rachel Caine

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

The devil takes us to the top of an exceeding high mountain and makes us dizzy; but God lets us look at the mountain.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.
- Orson Scott Card

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.
- Oswald Chambers

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.
- Francis Chan

There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
- Stephen King

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
- Cesar Chavez

The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine, but God's; they had the like, and were not disobedient to the heavenly vision
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
- Emil Cioran

Man wonders but God decides
who kills the Prince of Tides.
- Pat Conroy

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
- William Cowper

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
- Oliver Cromwell

When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.
- Jennifer Crusie

We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.
- Geena Davis

I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.
- John Green

But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)
- Sarah Dessen

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.
- Charles Dickens

Up up up up up up
points the spire of the steeple
but god's work isn't done by god
it's done by people

- Ani Difranco

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.
- Rick Warren

[T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
- Elaine Dundy

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
- Meister Eckhart

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
- Elisabeth Elliot

Fear is always with us: that we are not good enough or strong enough, and so will fail; that we will be hurt. Fear that what we love will be taken from us. Fear of dying, even fear of God, or of no God. But God surprises us by giving us strength to bear what we must; by giving us joy when we think that nothing but sadness is possible.
- Marina Endicott

But God in his infinite wisdome had apparently thought it was an entertaining idea for us to always be wanting to get up in one another.
- Charles Frazier

It has been more than twenty years since she lost her two daughters here, the one who was never given a name or a life, and her precious Usha. With thoughts of Usha comes the physical ache in her heart. There has not been a day since Usha's birth that Kavita has not thought of her, mourned her loss, and prayed for the hollow feelings of grief to melt away. But God has not listened. Or else he has not yet forgiven her. Because the heartache has endured.
- Shilpi Somaya Gowda

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
- Bede Griffiths

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.
- John Haggai

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.
- Alyson Hannigan

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.
- Joe Hill

Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes with open hands and open heart; lust comes with only an open appetite.
- Jeffrey R Holland

But God doesn't change.'
'Men do, though.'
'What difference does that make?'
'All the difference in the world.
- Aldous Huxley

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now"
"But God doesn't change"
"Men do though
- Aldous Huxley

Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be pursued for its own sake and please, please stop me wanting to beat Verena Plackett in the exams.'
She prayed hard and she meant what she said. But God was busy that autumn as the International Brigade came back, defeated, from Spain, Hitler's bestialities increased, and sparrows everywhere continued to fall.
- Eva Ibbotson

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.
- Cheryl James

Whenever temptation comes, remember the wise counsel of the Apostle Paul, who declared, 'There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it' (1 Corinthians 10:13).
- Thomas S Monson

When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.
- Mother Teresa

It is not our work, but God's gift, that we now hate ourselves and our sinful lusts and follow after love.
- Martin Luther

But God really did bless me, you know? He really said, All right. Come on. I'm still waiting for you. Get over here. Get over here.
- Liza Minnelli

No person ever gave me nothing but God.
- Suge Knight

But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
- Lactantius

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
- Lactantius

An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap-best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband-that is quite another matter.
- C S Lewis

That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.
- C S Lewis

Let us labor for an inward stillness--
An inward stillness and an inward healing.
That perfect silence where the lips and heart
Are still, and we no longer entertain
Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions,
But God alone speaks to us and we wait
In singleness of heart that we may know
His will, and in the silence of our spirits,
That we may do His will and do that only
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We are so little, that if God should manifest His greatness without condescension, we should be trampled under His feet; but God, who must stoop to view the skies, and bow to see what angels do, turns His eye yet lower, and looks to the lowly and contrite, and makes them great.
- Charles Spurgeon

Rather than accepting that we are the loving beings that He created, we have arrogantly thought that we could create ourselves, and then create God. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him. We have made up a God in our image. But God remains who He is and always has been: the energy, the thought of unconditional love.
- Marianne Williamson

I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
- Pedro Martinez

People who spend their time searching for feet of clay will miss not only the heavens wherein God moves in His majesty and power, but God's majesty as He improves and shapes a soul.
- Neal A Maxwell

Earthly love... is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security; but God's love, God's voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them.
- Donald Miller

I may not be perfect, but God knows I'm trying... and God knowing should count for something.
- Karen E Quinones Miller

Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.
- Sun Myung Moon

Jealousy makes you feel bad, but God is jealous, so it must be good. Yet when a dog licks its balls it seems to enjoy it, but it must be bad under the law.
- Christopher Moore

Stand by; for I am holier than you! What a parody on holiness! Jesus the Holy One is the humble One: the holiest will ever be the humblest. There is none holy but God: we have as much of holiness as we have of God.
- Andrew Murray

Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing the book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just rightin the way that's best for us.
- E Nesbit

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

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
- Origen

Love overlooks a person's faults. That's not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.
- Joel Osteen

You may be sitting around waiting for God to change your circumstances. Then you're going to be happy, then your're going to have a good attitude, then you're going to give God praise. But God is waiting on you to get up on the inside. When you do your part, He'll begin to change things and work supernaturally in your life.
- Joel Osteen

Something in the humble voice must have touched Msimangu, for he said, I am not kind. I am a selfish and sinful man, but God put his hands on me, that is all.
- Alan Paton

...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He did or suffered. True, blessedly and gloriously true. He manifested the glory of God to us, but he added nought to God... Christ's goodness and rightousness reached unto His saints in the earth but God was high above and beyond it all...
- Arthur W Pink

God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
- Orson Pratt

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.
- Joseph Prince

Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of His hand and no one can take Him from me.
- Francine Rivers

Being God's postman is no fun, yar.
Butbutbut: God isn't in this picture.
God knows whose postman I've been.
- Salman Rushdie

There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
- Zoe Saldana

Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.
- Kathryn Stockett

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
- Walter Smith

This is an old family secret, and I just found this out recently, and it almost broke my heart. My mother said to me, 'I had never told you this, but God, you were an ugly baby'.
- John Stamos

But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.
- Amy Wilson Carmichael

the devil may work against us for all he is worth, but God sends us men when we want them
- Bram Stoker

The shame of her youth screamed at her from every brick, but Jesus silenced it. She had dreaded this moment for weeks, but God was so powerful. In the very place of her worst sin and deepest pain his peace billowed through her soul.
- Sarah Sundin

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
- Torquato Tasso

I went to this beautiful place where the ground moved underneath me and the air was a part of me, and where time stopped. It was amazing and wonderful. But God sent me back, back to my body, back to you. - Lindsey Water
- Cyndi Tefft

This is how Heaven works. They're practical. We are always looking for rays of light. For lightning bolts or burning bushes. But God is a worker, like us. He made the world He didn't hire poor Indios to build it for him! God has worker's hands. Just remember angels carry no harps. Angels carry hammers.
- Luis Alberto Urrea

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
- Izaak Walton

As his ears rang and his heart broke for her, he stayed strong against the gale force she let loose. After all, there was a reason why here and hear were seperated by so little and sounded one like the other. Bearing witness to her, he heard her and was there for her because that was all you could do during a fall apart.
But God, it pained him to see how she suffered.
- J R Ward

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.
- Denzel Washington

Nothing scares me but God.
- Lil Wayne

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
- Lawrence Welk

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.
- John Wesley

Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell.
- John Wesley

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
- Ellen G White

We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.
- Philip Yancey

No one is perfect and perfectly holy but God alone.
- R Alan Woods

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