Joseph Franklin Rutherford Quotes

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

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.

God made man because he loved to listen to stories.

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.

God do everything for a reason.

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

God's revelation has always been in deeds. God's interventions in history have always been in deeds, in actions. Then there are those who interpret the actions, and then there are those who write down the interpretations of the actions.

Government “for the people” should be called a government of God rather than of men.

Next to the acknowledgement of the existence of a Deity, there is no one principle of greater importance in religion, than a realizing belief of the divine government and superintending the affairs of the universe, providence, and intimately concerned in whatever happens to mankind, both as nations and kingdoms, and as individuals.

I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don't understand.

The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I.

God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.