Divine Preference Quotes

I think the good Lord is a Yankee.

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know that he is.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

Remember God likes us best when we are flying by the seats of our pants.

Clearly, God is a Democrat.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

How odd Of God To choose The Jews

Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.

I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.

God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.

The lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. Do not talk about Jesus Christ as long as you love this world.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God's blessed. I tell you that God doesn't love us any more than He does the Russians.

The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you?

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes