Quotes About God

writers of the Bible knew that we've lost track of—is that love is the very essence of God, and God is powerful. In fact, He is all-powerful.

How can God allow such abominations to flourish unchecked in this world? The answer came in a question, Ruby. God, in reply, asked, "How can you?

Sister Marguerite wasn't her sister, but a nun—a teacher or a caretaker. The letters were Iola's prayers, her private thoughts. That's why they'd never been mailed. These letters weren't meant for earth, but for heaven. Not for her biological father, but for God.

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.

The God's been walking through our halls again: Brothers have been having visions. What's Vartra been saying to you?

He was uncomfortable with people who used the word blessed as a part of their everyday speech. The implication was that God was intervening in the minutiae of their lives, hanging around and helping them with their jobs or children or household chores as though He had nothing better to do. Maybe it was true... Maybe that was why there were wars and murders and earthquakes and hurricanes. God was too busy helping real estate agents find new listings to deal with those other issues.

I know many people who believe in God, and I expected to find Him on my way to the South Pole if he exists. My religious experiences were very different however, [only] involving myself, nature and the universe.

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.

And of all the rooms in my childhood, God was the largest and most empty.

Sooner of later, God will again bear out that semblance He makes of me each day. He'll knead, fold, punch, pull, mark, smudge, erase, and tear away. Sometimes it feels like love. And makes me tremble. Sometimes it hurts like death. And makes me shake.

The soul too is a debasement of a text, but, thus, it acquires salience, although a human salience, but inimitable, and, hence, memorable. God is the text. The soul is a corruption and a mnemonic. from "The Cleaving

But pleasing to the eye isn't the same as pleasing to God.

An army bringing news of peace! And not 'good will toward men,' as we often say, but 'peace among people of good will!'. Peace comes from knowing God.

First the Lord used Elizabeth, who was 'too old,' then he used Mary, who would be 'too young' by today's standards. At any age we can serve the Lord.

The loss of speech wasn't punishment; it was the proof Zechariah had asked for, the assurance of God's power.

Because this wasn't about the plans she made but the ones God had in store for her. Knowing she could trust him with her future was better than any list she could make, any task she could check off.

Every spiritual path leads the sincere seeker to the truth that can only be found within. The Sufi says that there are as many roads to God as there are human beings, "as many as the breaths of the children of men." Because we are each individual and unique, the journey of discovering our real nature will be different for each of us. At the same time different spiritual paths are suited to different types of people.

The Sufi relates to God not as a judge, nor as a father figure, nor as the creator, but as our own Beloved, who is so close, so near, so tender. In the states of nearness the lover experiences an intimacy with the Beloved which carries the softness and ecstasy of love.

To be a Sufi is to give up all worries and there is no worse worry than yourself. When you are occupied with self you are separated from God. The way to God is but one step: the step out of yourself. (Abu Sa'id Ibn Abi-l-khayr)

What else can I say? You don't know your own worth. Do not sell yourself at a ridiculous price, You who are so valuable in God's eyes. (Rumi)

You are more valuable than both heaven and earth. What else can I say? You don't know your own worth. Do not sell yourself at a ridiculous price, You who are so valuable in God's eyes. (Rumi)

When you seek God, seek Him in your heart. – Yunus Emre

God placed within the heart the knowledge of Him, and so the heart became lit by God's Light. By this light He gave the heart eyes to see. Then God spoke in a parable and said, "Compared to a niche wherein is a lamp." The lamp of the Divine Light is in the hearts of those who believe in the Oneness of God. – Al-Hakim at-Tirmidhi

In Interior Castle she describes seven different "mansions" of the soul and the progress by which prayer and spiritual practice take us into the innermost place of mystical marriage of the soul with God. In The Life of