Rowan Williams Quotes

It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so he could create this galaxy just so he could create Earth so he could create human beings so he could create a family.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.

God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

I think God always has the best for us.

My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.

The course of Nature is the art of God.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

The universe is one of God's thoughts.