God quotes

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

“God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.” Desmond Tutu

“Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?” Desmond Tutu

“In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.” Desmond Tutu

“God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.” Desmond Tutu

“For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.” Desmond Tutu

“In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.” Desmond Tutu

“God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.” Desmond Tutu

“Hate has no place in the house of God.” Desmond Tutu

“People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.” Desmond Tutu

“God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.” Desmond Tutu

“In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.” Desmond Tutu

“What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.” Oprah Winfrey

“I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.” Virginia Woolf

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” Walt Whitman

“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” Walt Whitman

“I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.” Walt Whitman

“You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.” Alan Watts

“Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.” Alan Watts

“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.” Alan Watts

“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

“But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.” Alan Watts

“The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.” Alan Watts

“The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.” Alan Watts

“The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.” Alan Watts

“I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.” Adele

“The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.” Adele