Quotes About God

I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward - I ask for no reward - only to live & to hear my work.

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.

Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives.

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.

Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.

If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

If you're waiting with God, waiting is okay. If you're always waiting on God, you'll be frustrated. God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.

I cannot work; I cannot speak; I cannot live or love as I should, unless God's wisdom lights my path.

Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.

Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.