Quotes About God

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE - DESIRE = GOD.

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

The perfect man sees nothing but God.

The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

Man is created for the glory of God.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

A temple, first of all, is a place of prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy sanctuary--a temple.

Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

Meekness is the mark of a man who has been mastered by God.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.