After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Nature is the art of God.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

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

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

God always takes the simplest way.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

God does not play dice.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

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.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.