Quotes About God

But many of the conceptual constructs that we employ in scientific and in philosophical thought concern objects such as black holes and quarks in physics, and God, spirits, and souls in metaphysics. These are objects about which it is of fundamental importance to ask about their existence in reality.

Without voluntary and loving surrender to God, we will not know peace, and the most sustainable peace prescription is God's own pronouncement that He is the proprietor of all lands (Gita 5.29).

The philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita holds that we don't actually own anything – that our nation, cars, homes, and our families ultimately belong to God. Even our own senses don't belong to us, according to the Gita.

Pilgrimage, then, is an image of what the journey of life is about. That, I believe, is the reason it endures—not because of relics and shrines, but because we sense intuitively that this holy journey is a rehearsal for death and resurrection. We go on pilgrimage to see our life in miniature, to walk physically and geographically the journey of the soul to God.

THE SECOND TEACHING OF ST. FRANCIS IS that we find God when we become poor enough for God to find us.

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.

God is the source and giver of our prosperity: "But remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth" (Deut. 8:18a).

Force has no meaning in the world, he had said to them, and holding his thumb and forefinger an inch apart to indicate the smallness of the bird, had added, God speaks through the least of His creatures.

Oh my God! I'm crushing an angel. Let me up!

Sometimes I remember that I can't always protect those I love. Under his fingers, her hair was soft and silky. She didn't try to tell him that he wasn't God, that he couldn't protect everyone. He knew that. But knowing and believing were two different things. What she did say succeeded in stopping his heart. I wish you'd love me. Why? Because then maybe you could protect me, too. Haunting sorrow whispered through her tone.

The Sun and the Moon are equated with the Father and the Mother. In the day, look up and remember our God; at night, look up and remember our Goddess - they are with us all the time!

Genesis 1:27 says, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; Male and female he created them." Thus, the image of God is not solely male, but both male and female, separately and collectively. Thus, we may know that men and women are equally the image of God. Perhaps humankind is the correct term we should use, suggesting that men and women together make up the image of The Divine.

There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart--God made us in such a way that we can never be truly satisfied with anything or anyone less than Himself

God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.

Our malady is not low self-esteem, nor is it how we view ourselves; rather, it is our low view of God.

The fact is, we will all be broken—sooner or later. We can choose to be broken or we can wait for God to crush our pride. If we resist the means God provides to lead us to brokenness, we do not avoid brokenness—we simply make it necessary for God to intensify and prolong the process.

Everything in your spiritual life depends on the sort of God you worship. Because the character of the worshiper will always be molded by the character of what he worships: If it is a cruel and revengeful God, the worshiper will be the same, but if it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be transformed slowly, wonderfully, into this likeness.1

The fact that there are some things (many things!) that God knows that we don't is what makes Him God and us human.

Once she asked me to kiss her. I said, "No, I want to keep our friendship and give it back to God." She agreed. We remained friends for over fourteen years.

Why miss out on what God has in store for you while you're trying to get in on his plan for somebody else? Your plans are the best—for YOU—and so is your personality. You're so worth it

God doesn't take away the problem. He gives you a different solution, and that solution lies in the power only He can give you.

Meanwhile, it's who you are inside that counts anyway. If you have God-confidence, you're going to look, act, and feel good about yourself because that's just how God made you. Concentrate on God and who He wants you to be.

So that's what we're about then, I said. Staying safe in our gated-community faith, where we make room for God. Well, you know what? It's a fantasy and a lie.

We do learn and get stronger through the hard stuff, but that's because God is love, not because God's putting us through some kind of obstacle course.