Quotes about God
If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.
- Dennis Prager
I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."
- Desmond Tutu
Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.
- Desmond Tutu
We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.
- Desmond Tutu
People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.
- Desmond Tutu
Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.
- Desmond Tutu
All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer