Quotes About God

A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.

As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you.

The Father most tender, Father of all, my immense God-I His atom.

Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives.

Deep down in every man, woman and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.

Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly.... Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

God loveth a cheerful giver.

I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

God sells knowledge for labour - honour for risk.

Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So, for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

My main message is to preach God's word, pure and truthful. But also make it swaggalicious.

The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through the angel Gabriel, had the power they did because they indicated new truths, new directions for followers.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.

The first day in office I guess is Tuesday, right? God willing, I'll get sworn in and I won't blow that.

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.