Quotes about God
Let us think less of men and more of God.
— Philip James Bailey
Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
— Henry David Thoreau
The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
— John Donne
To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.
— John Owen
Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.
— John Owen
The natural man "cannot see or discern that divine excellency in the Scripture, without an apprehension whereof no man can believe it aright to be the word of God."
— John Owen
Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
— John Piper
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
— John Tillotson
For man plans, but God arranges.
— Thomas a Kempis
Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer