African Proverb Quotes

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.

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

Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

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.

Reason, in fact, is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason.

If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we are distinct from nature, just as He is.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

As the science of every thing is in the formed Word, so also is God's will therein: That same expressed Word is in the angels, angelical; in the devils, diabolical; in man, human; in beasts, bestial.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

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.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

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

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

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.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each other, but enough different that we would need to unite our strengths and stewardships to create a whole.