Quotes About God

the soul of the righteous man is nothing but a paradise, in which, as God tells us, He takes His delight.

Our intellects, no matter how sharp, can no more grasp this than they can comprehend God.

God is not only the most high, he is also the all-near as well. Teresa's discovery of the presence of God within every soul came in the light of a contemplative grace.

But Benedict wished to suffer the world's wrongs rather than its praises, and to be worn out by labors for God rather than flattered by worldly praise. So he quietly slipped away...

every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.

So could it be that good can come out of suffering? That God uses it to build things into us? Things we might need?

But living in fear is no kind of life. We have to trust God. That doesn't mean bad things won't happen. But we know He's in charge.

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

She was a gift he hadn't let himself ask for. But God was good and provided what he needed.

Someone really wise once told me that even Christians aren't immune to tragedy. That we can't use this fallen world to gauge our value to God.

He sank in emotion, but kept praying, lifting Beth up to the throne of heaven, laying her in the arms of God, begging him for healing. Even Logan, who usually prayed in halting one-sentence prayers, talked openly to God, appealing to the Creator of the universe to pull Beth from the edge of death.

What more pleasant sensation than sunshine on skin, Spirit and flesh drinking in the light Of God and energy itself.

Whenever I see sunbeams coming through clouds, it always looks to me like God shining himself down onto us. The thing about sunbeams is they're always there even though we can't always see them. Same with God.

Raindrops resplendent with angels patter my head and drizzle God's love over me. Wet rejoicing abounds!

Oh, God. Heaven wasn't supposed to come this early. I was still among the living, and now more alive than ever.

How many stanzas in the springtime breeze? How plenty the raindrops? As He doth please. There is no meter and there is no rhyme, Yet God's poems always read in perfect time.

Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy.

Destiny = our free will + God's free will

Irad, who would be in charge while I was gone, walked up to me. "Sereni, you do not take Yah with you?" "We do not need to take the ark to have Yah with us," I explained. "Yah is a great enough God that He can go where He wills. The ark will remain here in the care of Abiathar and Beriah." "The people are glad of that, sereni, but are you saying that Yahweh can stay with us and yet go with you?" "Yes. His presence is not tied to the ark in the house.

When your surroundings are infused with memories of the past, you tend to remain in the past. You are prone to keep looking back rather than focusing forward on the new things God has for you.

When we clear the clutter, we are not erasing the memories. Holding on means not letting go. God has so much more for your life. You haven't seen your best days yet, but your clutter could be preventing you from recognizing the new things awaiting you.

When you get to a place in your life where it appears nothing is going in your favor, your circumstances seem hopeless and you have no indication that things will ever change; however, you say with great assurance, "I BELIEVE" then you better get ready, you are speaking the language of God!

Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.

We need words from heaven. Too many words come from the human heart and not from heaven. God wants prophets who will bring words from heaven that will change things on earth.