Good God Quotes

• With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

  Steven Weinberg

  God, Religious, Atheist

  "Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

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• We're going to bring our core message of hope and how God is a good God who's on our side.

  Joel Osteen

  God, Messages, Sides

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• Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

  Josephus Daniels

  Writing, Men, Dimes

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• I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Best Friend, Lord

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• God is good, and He cannot be anything else.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational

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• Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Death, Christian

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• God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Faith, Christian

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• God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.

  Billy Graham

  God, Religious, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jan 12, 2014

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• With God, all things are possible.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Bible, God

  Wayne W. Dyer (2012). “Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting”, p.50, Hay House, Inc

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• For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

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• God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Children, Heart, Giving

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• Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Asking Why, Missing, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Nov 25, 2012

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• God is a good God, and that he's on our side, and that he has great things in store and I believe that as we receive the forgiveness that Christ came and was born and died to give us, then we can live a great life.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Giving, Sides

  "Pastor Joel Osteen on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.

  Randy Alcorn

  Evil, Hell, Pleasant

  Randy Alcorn (2009). “If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil”, p.309, Multnomah

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• I think '60s are appealing to creative people, because it seemed to be a time of endless possibilities, when the boundaries of what could be considered popular culture were being expanded almost by the week. It doesn't feel like that anymore. At times, I wish it were so. Radio is a perfect example; good God, I mean, back then the most interesting songs were also hits, and that's just not true anymore. It hasn't been true in a long time.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Song, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Running, Song

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• Good God, what did he not remember?

  Tammara Webber

  Remember

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• We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.

  John Vianney

  Blessed, Angel, Saint

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• How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face. . . I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Suffering, Doe, Cost

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• Good God,” I whispered, sitting on the van’s cot and looking at my legs, horrified. They were hairy—not wolf hairy, but an I-couldn’t-find-my-razor-the-last-six-months hairy. Utterly grossed out, I took a peek at my armpit, jerking away. Oh, that’s just…nasty.

  Kim Harrison

  Six Months, Sitting, Razors

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• Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

  James Thurber

  Emo, Love Is, Giving

  James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster

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• God is a good God, and the Devil is a bad Devil.

  Oral Roberts

  Devil

  Oral Roberts (1972). “The Call: An Autobiography”

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• From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder we push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that.

  George S. Patton

  Believe, Mean, Army

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Jesus, Kindness

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• Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

  William H. Macy

  One Day, Cheese, Wake Up

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