Quotes About God

Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.

God is love, the parson whined. Yes, and is he also blind?

Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.

Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well.

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

We get to choose who we love, and that includes God, and he loves us back.

A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.

Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

God is love and doesn't ask for anything back in return. So it's that process of letting go and just allowing, and just being in that pure state.

Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.

Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.