Dikembe Mutombo Quotes

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous than that.

Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.

I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.

Depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

Whenever they sang a certain song in church, I used to sing it the loudest: 'Lead me, guide me, along the way!' One day, as I was singing this song, I felt as if the Lord was saying to me, 'Lead you along what way?' I realized then that if you don't have a plan, God doesn't have anything specific to direct you in.

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.

I just live my life. I go where I feel God is calling me.

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.

My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

I'm really passionate about God and religion, and I thought maybe I'm supposed to be a pastor.

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.