Quotes About God

Gott will nicht, daß ich den Andern nach dem Bilde forme, das mir gut erscheint, also nach meinem eigenen Bilde, sondern in seiner Freiheit von mir hat Gott den Andern zu seinem Ebenbild gemacht.

Die eigenen Wege führen im Kreise immer zu uns selbst zurück. Aber wenn Gott unsere Wege leitet, dann führen sie zu ihm. Gott leitet uns durch Glück und Unglück – immer nur zu Gott. Daran erkennen wir Gottes Wege.

Gott gab uns sein Wort, aus dem wir seinen Willen erkennen sollen. Die Bibel will gelesen und bedacht sein, täglich neu.

Weisheit ist etwas anderes als Wissen und Verstand und Lebenserfahrung. Weisheit ist das Geschenk, den Willen Gottes in den konkreten Aufgaben des Lebens zu erkennen.

Thus, instead of gaining only an internal silence, in the common sense of the word, he gains also that strange dynamic silence which preceded creation, and from which all things come—the silence of the heart of God. This silence is the root of sound, and from it pours forth the fiat that fashioned the world. This is the dynamic silence of creation, the tremendous dramatic silence of new birth forever taking place- new worlds forever fashioning.

Every truly intelligent man and woman who is working to spread light in the world is christened, or Lightened, by the actual labor which he or she is seeking to perform. The fact that light (intelligence) partakes of the natures of both God and the earth is proved by the names given to the personifications of this light for at one time they are called the "Sons of Men' and at another time the "Sons of God.

The Stoics were essentially pantheists, since they maintained that as there is nothing better than the world, the world is God.

A Mason is a builder of the temple of character. He is the architect of a sublime mystery-the gleaming, glowing temple of his own soul. He realizes that he best serves God when he joins with the Great Architect in building more noble structures in the universe below.

The mystery of the evergreen marking the grave of the dead sun god is also perpetuated in the Christmas tree.

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

God said to him [Eblis], 'You have become proud.' He replied, 'If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.

The expression of God in human nature is universal love. It is within us, not outside of or separate from us. Universal love is the capacity to embrace all in the universe, from the smallest ant to the unfathomable sky, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the bad. Universal love can disarm all prejudices, dissolve all differences, and bring the mind back to one core awareness — that everything comes from the same source.

Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah!

God is love. Thus when we love with the love of charity, our actions are the actions of God.

What Thérèse is proposing is more difficult than it seems, for when we are filled with guilt and a sense of our own wretchedness, it is hard to believe in the mercy of God, for guilt tends to project upon the face of God a stern grimace. Our sins do not alter God's merciful love toward us; they simply make it more difficult for us to believe in it.

Charity is the EXCELLENT WAY that leads most surely to God.

feel that my mission is about to begin, my mission to make God loved as I love Him, to teach souls my little way.

It seems to me that if a little flower could speak, it would tell simply what God has done for it without trying to hide its blessings

My God 'I choose all!' I don't want to be a saint by halves, I'm not [5]afraid to suffer for You, I fear only one thing: to keep my own will; so take it, for 'I choose all that You will!

Perhaps one of the truths that Dante is trying to convey to us in this passage is that we can only ascend into the joy of God when we lighten up; when we can look down and smile upon our foolishness. Chesterton once said that the devil cannot laugh at himself and that he fell from heaven because of his gravity and that angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Like Marie, we can erroneously believe that our desires and fervor are the measure of our love for God; this is an example of judging our spiritual life with an emotional yardstick. Thérèse tells us that the opposite is true, namely, that our love for God is proved when we act in a loving manner without the support of affect.

God alone, content with my weak efforts, [20]will raise me to Himself and make me a saint, clothing me in His infinite merits.

And I see that all is vanity and vexation of spirit under the sun,64 that the only good is to love God with all one's heart and to be poor in spirit here on earth.

Thunderstorms oft spurred these sorts of suppositions. "Maybe God is bursting with tears and he's flickering lights in His invisible bedroom